Kabadan Kocek Quotes & Sayings

Two armies at death-grips - that is one great army committing suicide. — Henri Barbusse

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. — S. N. Behrman

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations. — Andrew Bernstein

If we had not endured, we will never have succeeded. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Through the red haze of my blood I see a strange expression on his face. His eyes have come alive, and I don't like it at all. He's getting off on this now in a way he wasn't before. My first thought is that my honesty is feeding him in a bad, bad way and my second thought is not to question my gut.
"These are going to be very good days," he says to me. — Carolyn Lee Adams

A photograph is a fragment of reality unhurried by time. — Michael Krozer

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. — Horace

Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner ... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was. — Patricia McBride

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. — Kurt Loder

To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. — Rebecca Solnit

The tweezers weren't where they were supposed to be. He dug in the bottom of the kit until he found them, cursed the men on other shifts with no respect for their colleagues. It was like living in a dorm, Darcy thought. No, not the right word, the right memory. Like living in a barracks. It was the semblance of order over an underlying mess. Crisp sheets with folded corners over stained mattresses. That's what this was, people not putting things back where they belonged. — Hugh Howey

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri. — Harry S. Truman

What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation? — Sylvia Day