Taming Of The Shrew Katherina Quotes & Sayings

I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it rules your life with stupid blinding omnipotence, or else you overthrow it, and its power vanishes in a puff of smoke. And another secret: the revolution against fear, the engendering of that tawdry despot's fall, has more or less nothing to do with 'courage'. It is driven by something much more straightforward: the simple need to get on with your life. — Salman Rushdie

[Some] songs are all so detailed and in-depth that it takes forever to finish them. — Vic Fuentes

Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be. — Adam Nicolson

Quote from Ranger Captain David Craig, character in Voice in the Wilderness, page 187:
"If the House and the Senate had the guts to stick to it [Constitution], and we could trust SCOTUS to uphold it, we wouldn't be in this mess. — H.L. Wegley

Ms Roache's been marred by politics and she doesn't realize it. Luckily, there's much more to life and to friendship than one's party affiliation. Arts, sports, food are just some of the nobler interests we may share with people. Often, the only thing we share with someone is experiences, or "history" - those are, in a sense, our deepest friendships.
Politics already affects my affairs much more extensively than I'd be willing to allow. I refuse to let it take over my social life as well. — Massimiliano Trovato

If I am not I, who will be? — Henry David Thoreau

That is all about the raising of Lazarus, she whispered severely and abruptly, and turning away she stood motionless, not daring to raise her eyes to him. She still trembled feverishly. The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candle-stick, dimly lighting up the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book. Five minutes or more passed. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. — Hilaire Belloc

Writing the poems, I came to think that regarding is a form of love, but the regarding is not necessarily accurate. In the poems, people are always misperceiving one another. But misperceptions are a part of being alive to others. You don't need truth or beauty. All you do is perceive. That's all you need to have loved and lived fully. — Joy Katz

We are a nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own." Her — Chris Cleave

Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib. — Rebecca MacKinnon

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it? — Yiyun Li

I'm going to be frank, Max ... "
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile. — Alfred Alcorn