Strictures In Colon Quotes & Sayings

The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations. — Sam Sykes

Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released. — Greg Marinovich

In other words, where we are is vital to who we are. By "where," I'm speaking not only of our physical environment but also of our cultural environment. Culture is the sea we swim in - so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we step out of it. It matters more than we think. — Eric Weiner

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery. — Michael Josephson

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. — Samuel Eliot Morison

The days slide by as if they were liquid. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant") — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Well, it's not a disaster, is it? Man, too, comes to his end, and here we are making a fuss about a clay pot! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky