Magdoff And Foster Quotes & Sayings

Once decided in his mind on a given picture of what some aspect of life was like, he objected to any modification of the design. He possessed an absolutely rigid view of human relationships. Into this, imagination scarcely entered, and whatever was lost in grasping the niceties of character was amply offset by a simplification of practical affairs. Occasionally, it was true. I had known Widmerpool involved in situations which were extraordinary chiefly because they were entirely misunderstood, but on the whole he probably gained more than he lost by these limitations; at least in the spheres that attracted him. — Anthony Powell

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing. — David Boreanaz

Come, evening, once again, season of peace;
Return, sweet evening, and continue long!
Methinks I see thee in the streaky west,
With matron step, slow moving, while the night
Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd
In letting fall the curtain of repose
On bird and beast, the other charged for man
With sweet oblivion of the cares of day. — William Cowper

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time. — Alessandro Manzoni

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write. — Avijeet Das

Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you? — John Jackson Miller

Funny how we believe our own lies. — Anonymous

On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace, — Douglas Adams

I'm a raging fucking animal around you." I — Pam Godwin

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. — Pankaj Mishra