Silentious Quotes & Sayings

In the middle to late 1970s, when Putin joined the KGB, the secret police, like all Soviet institutions, was undergoing a phase of extreme bloating. Its growing number of directorates and departments were producing mountains of information that had no clear purpose, application, or meaning. An entire army of men and a few women spent their lives compiling newspaper clippings, transcripts of tapped telephone conversations, reports of people followed and trivia learned, and all of this made its way to the top of the KGB pyramid, and then to the leadership of the Communist Party, largely unprocessed and virtually unanalyzed. — Masha Gessen

I'm sorry I tried to burn you in the flames of Hell on your birthday." She actually looked repentant. "It's ok." I patted her small back. "I'm sorry I made all those birds poop on your head." Her eyes narrowed for a moment. Perhaps she hadn't known I was responsible for that. — Nicole Grane

All that blood and ... stuff. Me, I'll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day — A.C. Crispin

Katz couldn't have said exactly why Walter mattered to him. No doubt part of it was simply an accident of grandfathering: of forming an attachment at an impressionable ago, before the contours of his personality were fully set. — Jonathan Franzen

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become. — Gordon Livingston

You should be afraid. Very afraid. Before, I told you if you wanted to end things between us, I would let you go, but, Leila"
his voice deepened
"I lied. — Jeaniene Frost

Washington is unpredictable these days. — Steve Wynn

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive. — David Foster Wallace

Bill was wrestling with his undercooked chicken. "Wow," I remarked while examining my own plate. "I don't think I can eat this."
"I know. It's gross," he conceded. "But it's free, so I scarf down seconds each night."
"As a dog returneth to his vomit," I said, while making the sign of the cross in the air in front of me.
"Amen," he agreed with his mouth full, and toasted me with his 7Up can. — Hope Jahren

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace! — Pope Francis

Grace O'Malley is a crafty devil. — Morgan Llywelyn

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of His grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. Every day should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. - JERRY BRIDGES — Mark Batterson