Quotes & Sayings About Irony In The Scarlet Letter

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. — Steven Erikson

This was perhaps what you feared: to become inert in a body that still breathes, drinks, and feeds itself. To commit suicide in slow motion. — Edouard Leve

What kind of slut do you think I am?"
Theo bumped his hips against hers. "This might not be the best moment to ask me that. — Annabel Joseph

The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. — Marianne Williamson

I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power. — Sebastian Junger

The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose. — Sharon Gannon

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe. — Michael Foot

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement. — Henry Ward Beecher