Webbie Breakfast Quotes & Sayings

The deeper the Whites moved into the steppe, the more they resorted to terror against a hostile population. Their Ice March left a trail of blood. It was perhaps unavoidable, given the Volunteers' desperate need for food and the reluctance of the peasants to give it to them. The Whites were stranded in a Red peasant sea. But there was also an element of sheer class war and revenge in their violence, as in so many acts of the White Terror, which was a mirror image of the class resentment and hatred that drove the Red Terror. Terror lay at the heart of both regimes. — Orlando Figes

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. — Agnes Martin

They left. Among the many dumb rules of paragraphing foisted on students in composition courses is the one that says that a paragraph may not consist of a single sentence. Wilkerson ends a richly descriptive introductory chapter with a paragraph composed of exactly two syllables. The abrupt ending and the expanse of blankness at the bottom of the page mirror the finality of the decision to move and the uncertainty of the life that lay ahead. Good writing finishes strong. — Steven Pinker

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland. — Duane Hewitt

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical. — Russell Simmons

The awareness that is not prickled and tugged by capricious emotion. The awareness that is aware that it is aware. — Anonymous

I love my best friends, but sometimes, I want to punch them in the face. Lovingly, of course. — Tara Sivec

How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country? — Thanhha Lai

The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. — Arnold Bennett