Jouffroy Passage Quotes & Sayings

the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself. — Elie Wiesel

deep well. Either the — Lewis Carroll

I especially treasured my glimpses of Mother, Queen Cleopatra VII. She sat on a golden throne, looking as resplendent as one of the giant marble statues guarding the tombs of the Old Ones. Diamonds twinkled in a jungle of black braids on her ceremonial wig. She wore a diadem with three rearing snakes and a golden broad collar, shining with lapis lazuli, carnelian, and emeralds, over her golden, form-fitting pleated gown. In one hand, she held a golden ankh of life, while the other clasped the striped crook and flail of her divine rulership. Her stillness radiated power, like a lioness pausing before the pounce. It left me breathless with awe. — Vicky Alvear Shecter

I had wakened the glow: his features beamed.
'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark! — Charlotte Bronte

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. — Ellen Glasgow

Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is. — Betty Jamie Chung

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish. — Lenny Bruce

. . .if love wasn't knowing and appreciating all the little things about a person, what was it?
- Lord Trent Hawthorne — Kristi Ann Hunter

What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself. — Kat Von D.

The idea that we must choose between the method of "winning hearts and minds" and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right. — Noam Chomsky