Testifies Def Quotes & Sayings

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination. — S.A. Tawks

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family?Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice we make. Either you men kill us and are honored for it, or we women kill you and are damned for it. Dead or damned. Women don't have to make choices like that in Hades. There is no love there, nothing to betray. — Sheri S. Tepper

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse. — E.D. Hirsch Jr.

All legends have a base in fact. — David Gemmell

Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life. — Hafez

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance. — Lawrence Fagg

Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. ( ... ) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame. — Alan Ryan

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. — Ralph Blum

There was a worried little smile on her face. But my heart felt nothing, and I couldn't even return her smile. — Albert Camus

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion — Carmen Naranjo

No great creative project can thrive (or even survive) off the energy of one person. — Scott Belsky

Lord! who hath praise enough? — George Herbert