Remords En Quotes & Sayings

There is evil in the world. Things might be easier if there wasn't, if good and evil were just concepts men invented to justify themselves; we could ignore them, then. Sadly, good and evil are both very real, and very inconvenient. — Seanan McGuire

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle. — Bill Callahan

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel. — James Lee Burke

We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it. — Holly Sprink

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government ... — Thomas Jefferson

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled. — Giles Duley

At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them. — Paddy Considine

These months drive us to listen within. — Charol Messenger

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that they are malnourished. This is a ploy to get them settled so they can be controlled. Also, it is a source of embarrassment to the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia that in the 1980s, nomadic hunters are still roaming the jungles. This doesn't help the national image of a modern, developing country. — Eric Hansen

It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person. — George H. W. Bush

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead. — Richard K. Morgan