Patria Courage Quotes & Sayings

Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. — E. M. Forster

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken. — Veronica Roth

Giving authority to others to control your lower-self impulses only serves to keep you in the lower self! — Heidi DuPree

We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice. — Alysia Reiner

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country ... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it. — Heinrich Heine

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art. — Gore Vidal

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution ; 68 percent believe in Satan . Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world . — Sam Harris

Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew that no one could hurt him. This was for him an axiom, assumed once and for all without question. And he went his way without hesitation, relying on it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky