Rad Thibodeaux Quotes & Sayings

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone. — Rebekah Brooks

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think. — Paul Theroux

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion. — Edwin Percy Whipple

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him; — Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they neglect the means of self-defence. The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; ... the weak will become prey. — Thomas Paine

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with. — Wesley Eisold

I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing. — Jason Mraz

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. — Rebecca West

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry. — Brenda Blethyn

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves. — Seymour Krim

... no place is more filled with imagined voices than a library. — Wayne C. Booth