Quotes & Sayings About The Commander In The Handmaid's Tale

Caring for someone is scary [ ... ] But you can't fear dictate your life [ ... ] Don't live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year or a hundred years — Nicole Williams

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. — Robert Brault

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing. — Gloria Steinem

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them? — Andrew Napolitano

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. — Philip Johnson

Football is Freedom, a whole universe. — Bob Marley

And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"
"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. — Umberto Eco

Understanding wasn't always necessary, as long as you believed. — Dean Koontz

Often we suffer because we don't realize what's essential.
We may want to be rich, but the rich are lonely.
We see all those people on TV that have won the lottery and want to be at their place, but studies show that they are even more miserable after having won the big check. They don't really know what to do with all that money, take poor decisions on how to spend them, change themselves and their friends don't see them in the same way. — Lidiya K.

The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination- an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfilment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past but who may really be the guides to our future. To do this we have to ask our rulers: Can you leave the water in the rivers, the trees in the forest? Can you leave the bauxite in the mountain? — Arundhati Roy

I'm kind of an insomniac and watch TV late at night. — Monica Keena

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying. — Marilynne Robinson

He couldn't even write his name. When he was Emperor, he had to sign documents with a stencil. — K.J. Parker

Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. — Leo Tolstoy