Jacques Hebert Quotes & Sayings

Holy freaking crap. A suicide bomber just detonated a bomb in my brain, — Megan Thomason

There are no short cuts to the top. — Ed Viesturs

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. — Joseph Addison

Today's decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure. — Barack Obama

There were a few exotics among them - some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince. Sim had two great ambitions. One was to attract titled boys to the school, and the other was to train up pupils to win scholarships at public schools, above all Eton. He did, towards the end of my time, succeed in getting hold of two boys with real English titles. One of them, I remember, was a wretched little creature, almost an albino, peering upwards out of weak eyes, with a long nose at the end of which a dew drop always seemed to be trembling. Sam always gave these boys their titles when mentioning them — George Orwell

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured. — C.S. Lewis

I leaned against his side, his irritation oddly comforting. After a moment he grudgingly put his arm around me. The deep quiet was already settling back upon the grove, as if all the fire and rage we'd brought could make only a brief interruption in its peace. — Naomi Novik