Vianu Orar Quotes & Sayings

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals — Irving Kristol

He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever man of the world of established position can hardly help taking himself rather seriously. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier

Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. — Stephen R. Lawhead

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park. — Jim Crace

The only thing separating Americans and Brits is a comman language. — H.P. Mallory

I awoke to a loud banging noise and sat straight up. I reached for the light, not to turn it on, but for a weapon. All I could think was that Travis had killed Caeden, and now he'd come for me. — Micalea Smeltzer