Pseudonymes Francais Quotes & Sayings

But simply punishing the broken
walking away from them or hiding them from sight
only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. — Bryan Stevenson

He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year. — Terry Pratchett

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish. — George Santayana

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs. — Pat Gillick

There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can. — Elie Wiesel

I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are.
"Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
"We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in. — Aravind Adiga

It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over. — Helen Oyeyemi

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision. — J. Michael Straczynski

Live as if you have already lived and died, now do what you ever wanted to in an earlier life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy. — Rick Riordan

The casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was a violent instinctive response. For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond. — Walter Lippmann

The words that work are those which make your listener experience something: See it, feel it, maybe even hear or taste or smell it. What you say must give your listener — Anne Miller

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. — P. J. O'Rourke