Passalacqua Obituary Quotes & Sayings

From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys, and we'll try to keep them really, really safe so that only in an emergency and if it's authorized by a court will we bring out those keys and use them." And, from a policy point of view, when you describe it that way, who could be against that? — Matt Blaze

It is the eye that discovers the mystery of light, not only the moon and the stars and the vast splendours of the Aurora, but the endless changes the earth undergoes under changing lights. — Nan Shepherd

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. — Plato

Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

He looks up. Again, it is there in the sky. The planet of awesome size, lit by no sun. An invisible titan, all thick black forests and jagged mountains and deep, turbulent oceans. It is very close now. So close that he wonders if he could touch it. As he reaches up, he thinks he sees movement on its surface. Through the canopy of the forests and upon the slopes of the mountains and on the shores of the churning ocean. People maybe. Crowds of people all wrapped in white cloth. They are leaning into each other like dropped puppets. They sway lifelessly. He feels horror in the back of his throat, but still he reaches up. He can't help himself. It's just what he does next. — Joseph Fink

She's braver than she needs to be," he continued. "Maybe, just maybe, she could be the one. — Debra Anastasia

Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket. — Andrew Nikiforuk

What occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house and my dumb school and my dumb job. But there is a huge world out there ... and most of it is underwater. — A.S. King

But Maurice was clean-shaven, and, by the portraits shown to me, certainly quite beautiful; though he looked a little more like a tenor than a gentleman ought to look. James — G.K. Chesterton

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence. — Bryan Cranston

I'd like to have a dog with me. — Aphex Twin

But what you need to understand, my darling," she whispers, "is that this little taste your daughter has had is a taste of what could be. She's swallowed it. It's inside her now. — Eleanor Catton

Your biggest hurdle isn't your opponent, it is yourself. — Brandon Todd