Post Communist Countries Today Quotes & Sayings

Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all. — George Santayana

This was how I was going to die - not in battle, not from the plot of some Council member hell-bent on destroying me, but trampled to death by a bunch of pure-bloods. Of all the ways to die.

I was so going to haunt every last one of them. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead. — Drew Karpyshyn

I'd like to do a play in New York. — Matt Smith

Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. I can see the appeal. — Margaret Atwood

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill. — Thurston Moore

His body pressed against mine while he deepened the kiss. Tongues collided and breath was stolen. My senses were consumed completely by this man who bewildered me with his complexity. One minute I hated him, the next I wanted to know every damn thing about him. I wanted to slap him, kiss him, yell at him, comfort him, understand him, tell him to fuck off. But in that moment all I wanted to do was kiss him forever. — Nina Levine

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, -
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart were hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried. — Henry David Thoreau

You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug - and the lights go out! — Jane Yolen

Your brother Trent. And Travis. And you're Thomas. Who am I missing? Tiger and Toadstool? — Jamie McGuire

It was like drowning, only from the inside out. — Stephen King

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. — Henry Taylor

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar. — Flora Thompson

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right. — Dorothy Day

The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 ... Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government. — Milton Friedman