Poltroon Event Quotes & Sayings

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. — Quentin Reynolds

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you — Leonard Cohen

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42 — Chris Hedges

It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface. — Charles Lindbergh

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people. — Alice Hoffman

It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually. — Sarah Dessen

Stars ink your fingers
with a lexicon of flame
blazing rare knowledge. — Aberjhani

Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, "them" and "us," victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. — Robert Fisk

You all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. — John Green

I believe it would take two Labassecourien carpenters to drive a nail. — Charlotte Bronte

Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire. — Shannon Hale

And whilst so much escaped her mind, such could nay escape her heart, so eager to receive the witnesses of such chance-built things, like seed in soil. — Luke Taylor

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire. — Tadeusz Konwicki

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author.
Wine is bottled poetry — Robert Louis Stevenson