Ortansa Grigorescu Quotes & Sayings

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way.
The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor. — Katherine Boo

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically. — David Rudolf

... a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian — Renata Adler

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. — Oscar Wilde

No, sweetheart. I expect you to submit. They're only padded because I can't bear the thought of so much as bruising you. I take the gift of your trust very seriously. — R.K. Lilley

She looked at him teasingly, "You're in trouble again, aren't you? — Dhayaa Anbajagane

I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. — Patton Oswalt

She continued toward the light, content and satisfied in both body and mind. She broke the surface and gasped a full breath into her lungs, her head buzzing with endorphins.
Leaping into flight, she saw a pair of icy, watching dragon eyes a moment too late. — Susannah Scott