Pinkers Iron Quotes & Sayings

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh. — Matthew Lillard

For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they could not escape either pride or sloth, the two sources of all vice; since they cannot but either abandon themselves to it through cowardice, or escape it by pride. — Blaise Pascal

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them. — John Mason Brown

Divide and rule. It wasn't just the British toward the Indians but all parents toward their children. — Karan Mahajan

The rest of dinner was an ordeal. When Adam looked at Signora Docci, he saw Professor Leonard; when he looked at Antonella, he saw himself kissing her in the garden; and when he looked at Harry, he found himself wondering if one of them had been adopted. — Mark Mills

There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If someone were sketching her they would use clear, strong lines, whereas before they might have used faint marks and more shading. She was like a fossil that's been cleaned and set so everyone can see what it is. — Tracy Chevalier

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. — Patricia Marx

When you trust yourself, you sow the seeds of fear into the hearts of your enemies! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a sign-writer. — Sherwood Anderson

He couldn't help but wonder if Moses Levy had experienced this same heat, if true images burned their maker. He wondered, too, if the hermit at that riverside was right, if there wasn't some element of capturing a soul in each photograph, if he wasn't responsible for those whose images he caught. — Alice Hoffman