Koussevitzky Foundation Quotes & Sayings

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces. — Baron De Montesquieu

There is a need for heroism in American life today. — Vicki Baum

He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like. — Sylvia Plath

I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each book, since I can't always tell they're failures until later ... or I don't want to admit that they are. — Matthea Harvey

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray — Cassandra Clare

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before. — Carly Fiorina

She crooned, twining her legs around his, pressing her forehead to his breastbone. It was all he needed. Easing her backward, supporting her until she lay upon his desk, he pumped into her in aching need while his heart threatened to burst inside and his pulse almost drowned out the praise and the most sacred of promises that he whispered in the language of his fathers. Telling her how hot arguing with her made him, how proud he was of how she stood up to him, he held her gaze while he took her, and even as she coalesced around him again, drawing him into the surging power of her heartbeat, her ultimate pleasure. — Jennifer Blake