Roberto Da Costa Quotes & Sayings

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything. — Charles Manson

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings. — Matt Taibbi

Do not prove but be yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My heart will always beat your name — Willow Aster

Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man. — Jonathan Lethem

The purpose of our life is to help others through it. — Peter Matthiessen

Germany is the Jew among nations. — Milton Sanford Mayer

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble. — Alistair MacLean

I adored you," North said. "I just didn't tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it's like the first time, I can't think, I can't talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I've got you back ... You're everything, Andie. I should have told you that before. — Jennifer Crusie

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. — Margaret Halsey

We want the truth, Detective. You are confusing that with what we choose to tell the public. — Michael Connelly

Even though the circumstances surrounding your conception may make you wonder whether your life was just some accident, let me tell you that your life is no accident! Before you were born, before you were even conceived, God already knew you. He knew your likes and dislikes, your passions and desires. He also had in mind a specific purpose for bringing you into the world, otherwise you would not exist. — Corallie Buchanan

White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want. And this assumption - which, for example, makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept and adopt white standards - is revealed in all kinds of striking ways, from Bobby Kennedy's assurance that a Negro can become President in forty years to the unfortunate tone of warm congratulation with which so many liberals address their Negro equals. — James Baldwin