Vojnovich Quotes & Sayings

It was William Penn who said, "Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." Brent knew that there was nothing right about this place and the way the prisoners were treated, and he was determined to do whatever he could to change that. — Kenneth Eade

People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking. — George Carlin

We are living in a world where everything is based on security. — Alain Robert

The revolution will survive. It does not rely solely on oil for its survival. There is a national will, there is a national idea, a national project. — Hugo Chavez

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. — John Dewey

We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear very quickly this was the smart thing to do. Not only did we start to generate answers for those customers, they embraced us for what we were trying to do. The goodwill in the market place has just been stunning. The rest of the business case is pretty simple. I cost it down not up. — Ray Anderson

Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.
-Raphael — Nalini Singh

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye

Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart? — William Goldman

When he has thus gone forth, he lives restrained by the rules of the monastic code, seeing danger in the slightest faults. Consummate in his virtue, he guards the doors of his senses, is possessed of mindfulness and alertness, and is content. — Tushar Gundev

No men were allowed, and a nurse who smuggled one in would be dismissed if she was caught. Student nurses could not marry. All this was to repress our sexuality, yet we were dressed up like sex kittens. With exquisite irony, in today's permissive society, when anything goes and nurses can do whatever they like sexually, the uniform has changed beyond all recognition, and the average nurse now looks like a sack of potatoes tied in the middle, often wearing trousers rather than sexy black stockings. — Jennifer Worth

Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking. — Thomm Quackenbush

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. — Jorge Luis Borges