Labrandon Toefield Quotes & Sayings

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. — Madame De Stael

The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage. — Charles A. Beard

It was like looking at the sun and not going blind — John Corey Whaley

There's always a polemic in my clothes. — Vivienne Westwood

You don't have to be strong all the time. The world isn't going to think less of you. — Beth Michele

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. — H.W. Brands

Modesty is for saints and losers. I'm neither. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Yet, she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this
love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary. — Virginia Woolf

Nice. Now that's an overrated quality — Beth Fantaskey

I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing. — Stephen L. Petranek