Leakers Identified Quotes & Sayings

What Kafka said: I write to close my eyes. — Jenny Offill

Expectations is an anchor, a heavy burden every man if the first carry and then overcome if he is to ever to reach the shorelines of his dreams. — Peter S. Fogg

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself. — Woody Allen

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice. — C.S. Lewis

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. — Jack Gould

What I want people to realize is that "transitioning" is not the end of the journey. Yes, it's an integral part of revealing who we are to ourselves and the world, but there's much life afterward. These stories earn us visibility but fail at reporting on what our lives are like beyond our bodies, hormones, surgeries, birth names, and before-and-after photos. — Janet Mock

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible. — Vladislav Tamarov

The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America. — Brian Stanley

I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is. — Scott Kazmir

The times on the open road with all the unknown ahead were the times I was happiest and most secure, with people who knew our core and lived solely for the purpose of unmediated experiences and love, from which purpose itself is born. Not the distant idea of life, love and purpose dirtied by constructs. — Jackie Haze

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them. — Joyce Meyer

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. — Leonard Mlodinow

Sometimes it seems, we are so diminished by our own shortcomings we are unable to celebrate the success of others. — Carlos Wallace

The only thing I'm running for is the state line. — James Carville

The Obama administration, which has brought more prosecutions against leakers than all prior presidencies combined, has sought to create a climate of fear that would stifle any attempts at whistle-blowing. But Snowden destroyed that template. He has managed to remain free, outside the grasp of the United States; what's more, he has refused to remain in hiding but proudly came forward and identified himself. As a result, the public image of him is not a convict in orange jumpsuit and shackles but and independent, articulate figure who can speak for himself, explaining what he did and why. — Glenn Greenwald