Lauren Alex Hooper Quotes & Sayings

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. — Neil Gaiman

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. — Richard Brautigan

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union. — Fredrik Bajer

Man is the microcosm; man is the measure of all things; man is the image of God. — G.K. Chesterton

I thought about it all the way home. Of all the things I had wanted to be when i was a little girl, a revolutionary certainly wasn't one of them. — Assata Shakur

Fear is about things that you can't control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don't get scared of yourself because you always know what you're going to do. — Dan Wells

We the People - shelling the Vietcong — Allen Ginsberg

The development-minded prime minister is looking for foreign capital and technology to boost India's economy. China's stock of direct investment of $400m in India is derisory - less than that of Belgium. Talk fills the Indian press of a 250-fold increase, to $100 billion in just a few years. — Anonymous

The whole point of love is to trust someone with your heart and pray they don't break it. It's about faith in each other. I gave you my heart when I told you I loved you which means I'm giving you power over me. — Belle Aurora

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals
or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? — Rose Macaulay

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader. — Gillian Cross

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever. — Thomas Jefferson