Laurance Aphmau Quotes & Sayings

If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines. — William Graham Sumner

From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own. — Dean Koontz

There was a nook in the house that contained what they called the Turkish Room, which was for intimate conversation. And when my mother had her sixth birthday, her grandmother led her into the Turkish Room. They were both named Inez. And on that day Big Inez gave Little Inez a plantation all her own. Two thousand acres. Then her little sister came running in and said, "Grandmother, can I have a plantation too?" And Big Inez looked down and said, "Child, your name is Alice. You were named for your Yankee grandmother. Go ask your Yankee grandmother for a plantation. — Adam Gopnik

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work. — Melinda Gates

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. — Pat Conroy

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. — William Shakespeare

Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: Stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die. — Gayle Forman

Th Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. — Kay Redfield Jamison