Mankell Hayes Quotes & Sayings

I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy. — C.S. Lewis

Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin. — Larry Merchant

The May of life blooms once and never again. — Friedrich Schiller

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified. — Dov Davidoff

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does. — Ilana Mercer

Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising. — Jennifer Melzer

Sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody. — Haruki Murakami

This is the point of Babette. — Don DeLillo