They Never Came Back Caroline B Cooney Quotes & Sayings

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts ... — John Dos Passos

Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over him. — Simone Weil

wir konnen warten. wissen macht frei [we can wait. knowledge liberates]. in these confident words the stalwart Ritter von Schmerling expressed the rationalistic expectations of the political process at the beginning of the liberal era in 1861.

at the end of that era, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, scion of a cultivated middle-class family, offered a different formula for political success: politics is magic. he who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow. — Carl E. Schorske

The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis is he had this vision of cultural pluralism that completely gave the lie to the idea that there was any inconsistency between being Jewish or being a woman or being African American and being fully American. — Jeffrey Rosen

The longer you fight to be right the less time you'll have to be happy. — Paula Heller Garland

It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. — John Updike

I'M PRETTY GOOD at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time. — Rick Riordan

I'm nowhere but I'm somewhere and it's not where I want to be. I don't really know what I want. But I know I don't have it. — Karina Halle

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. — James Taylor

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed. — Charles Inglis

February, month of despair,
with a skewered heart in the centre. — Margaret Atwood

If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here. — Ben E. King

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility! — Mark Donnelly