Tyrannies Define Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be. — Miranda Lambert

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward.
"Cather ... "
Back up to his eyes.
"You know that I'm falling in love with you, right? — Rainbow Rowell

They are for 'freedom' when it is freedom to kill third-term fetuses or engage in same-sex marriages or stuff coke up their noses; they do not define freedom as anything to do with captive peoples around the world having the chance to escape the tyrannies that constrain them. They like Fidel because he is a thorn in America's side and a sort of dime-store existentialist, and they rhapsodize about his spreading of literacy in Cuba without considering the fact that at the same time that he teaches people to read he tortures writers like Armando Valladares whose books he doesn't like. — David Horowitz

It would not have done Poirot any good whatever to state that his wishes were the precise opposite of hers in this respect. Nothing fascinated him more than the private passions of strangers he would probably never meet again. — Sophie Hannah

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion. — Janusz Kaminski

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed. — Norman Geras

He kept pushing her, expecting for her to break. Fearing it. But he was the one who splintered apart. He was the one who broke. — Amber Lin

Music move God, just as it does lucifer. Something they both have in common. — Niyigiraimbabazi Zacharia