Vbac Success Quotes & Sayings

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live! — Paul Valery

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never."
"So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?"
"Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God. — John Le Carre

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. — Diane Frolov

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. — Eileen Myles

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking ... the most audacious adventure that one can dare. — Alexis Carrel

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. — George Bernard Shaw

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is. — Sylvia Boorstein