Refuge In Audacity Quotes & Sayings

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. — Tertullian

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity. — Tacitus

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. — Thucydides

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending. — Truman Capote

Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you. — James Frey

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home. — Donna Tartt

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there it was, and the fault was doubtless neither hers nor his, but that of the world they had grown up in, of their own moral contempt for it and physical dependence on it, of his half-talents and her half-principles, of the something in them both that was not stout enough to resist nor yet pliant enough to yield. — Edith Wharton

If you commit perjury I don't care. Don't give a shit. I don't think you should because you grade murder. You have murder One. Murder Two. You realize that there can be a difference in the level of murder.
So there must be a difference in the level of perjury. Perjury One is when you're saying there's no Holocaust when, you know, 10 million people have died in it, and Perjury Nine, is when you said you shagged someone and you didn't. — Eddie Izzard

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us. — Nancy Pelosi

Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating? — L.M. Montgomery

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect. — Tupac Shakur

Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience. — Martin Luther

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. — Samuel Johnson

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. — Mark Kurlansky