Koubek Mansion Quotes & Sayings

A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie? Blinking, — Steven Erikson

What falls away is always. And is near. — Theodore Roethke

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage. — Judd Apatow

This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one? — Cormac McCarthy

You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [ ... ] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering. — Bill Murray

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. — Margaret Benson

Under Arab rule, Palestine had always been a somnolent desert land that could have sustained no authentic twentieth-century Arab awakening. Palestine without Jews is a not a nation but a naqba. — George Gilder

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them. — Colin Powell

When good Americans die, they go to Paris"
"Where do bad Americans go?"
"They stay in America — Oscar Wilde

Life is short, enjoy it while you may. — Jennifer Worth

If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough. — Tony Goldwyn

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack. — Richard Wilbur

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent. — Seneca The Younger

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." "Miss — Harper Lee

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency. — Cornelia Otis Skinner