Rorabeck Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I never just went to look for clothes and style; I always find that wherever I go. — Iris Apfel

A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline. — Francois Hollande

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes. — Amelia Earhart

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt. — Marquis De Sade

Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment leaves him without a story of the Enlightenment's intellectual or cultural origins. Every historian has to begin somewhere, but the fact that Israel begins with Spinoza, and then reduces most of what follows the philosopher to a footnote, leaves his account of the Enlightenment founded on something like immaculate conception. — Samuel Moyn

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.
-Til We Have Faces — C.S. Lewis

Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges. — Greg Baxter

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire. — Kurt Tucholsky

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. — Charles De Lint

A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries. — Kate Morton

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. — Nic Pizzolatto

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. — David Mamet

meaning 'four-oaring — Giles Kristian