The Town Interrogation Quotes & Sayings

How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain? — Richard Wurmbrand

Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time. — Timi Nadela

None of the Aldens knew that they were the first real callers Miss Gray had had for many years. — Gertrude Chandler Warner

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without. — Helena Christensen

It was then that we connected. His sound bounced through my head and out my eyes, painting my world with new shades of color. I still remember the smile that unnoticeably took my face as I inched for another touch. — Charles Lee

The Queue consists entirely of fragments of ochered' dialogue, a linguistic vernacular anchored by the long-suffering word stoyat' (to stand). You stood? Yes, stood. Three hours. Got damaged ones. Wrong size. Here's what the line wasn't: a gray inert nowhere. Imagine instead an all-Soviet public square, a hurly-burly where comrades traded gossip and insults, caught up with news left out of the newspapers, got into fistfights, or enacted comradely feats. In the thirties the NKVD had informers in queues to assess public moods, hurrying the intelligence straight to Stalin's brooding desk. Lines shaped opinions and bred ad hoc communities: citizens from all walks of life standing, united by probably the only truly collective authentic Soviet emotions: yearning and discontent (not to forget the unifying hostility toward war veterans and pregnant women, honored comrades allowed to get goods without a wait). — Anya Von Bremzen

Indeed, who has a greater right to public respect than the man of color fighting for freedom after having experienced all the horrors of slavery? To equal the most celebrated warriors he need only keep in mind all the evils he has suffered. — Tom Reiss

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents. — Ernst Otto Fischer

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,
The coin, Tiberius. — Henry Austin Dobson

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas. — Max Von Sydow

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn ... to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. — Asne Seierstad

the technology is not a single cause of a cultural transformation like the Renaissance, but it is, in many ways, just as important to the story as the human visionaries that we conventionally celebrate. — Steven Johnson

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think ... that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures. — Robert Hughes