Symmetrically Enlarged Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to return to prose after a fifteen-year hiatus. An epistolary novella maybe. A man went into the mountains fifteen years ago to write the following letter to a woman: "Dear B., I'd like to strike you down with an iron rod. Maybe I love you. If you feel the same way and your wishes conform to mine, then please please get in touch with me posthaste. We'll discuss this matter together and make the necessary arrangements if everything works out. With warm wishes, Your Bernd." The letter is, however, never mailed and never written. In further letters to B. from Bernd, he pursues, among other things, the question: why? The last letter could be the one in which Bernd lets B. know that the matter has been settled since he has just been struck down by a group of women with iron rods. — Urs Allemann

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind. — H.L. Mencken

Imagine that your desktop computer began to control its own peripheral devices, removed its own cover, and pointed its webcam at its own circuitry. That's us. — David Eagleman

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army. — Jim Ryun

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. — Herbert Hoover

... for nightinggales - we know - can't live on fairytales. — Leo Tolstoy

It's funny, because when I went down to the combine for the interviews with teams, Charles Haley is the name that came up a lot as a comparison to the way I play. A lot of people said that I reminded them of him, and that's a great honor. — Justin Tuck

The Eucharist is usually not considered an essential aspect of Christian worship by those concerned with church growth. — Paul W. Chilcote

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties. — Charles Krauthammer

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress. — Yukio Mishima

We all have to live with our past, but it doesn't have to define us. — Nalini Singh

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything. — Shirley Henderson