1781 Battle Quotes

#1. He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

John Locke

#2. (...) he was beginning to be himself. And now he wanted madly to be free to go on. A home, his work, and absolute freedom to move and to be, in her, with her, this was his passionate desire. He thought in a kind of ecstasy, living an hour of painful intensity.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way." That's not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.

Ben Affleck

#5. You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes.

Max Lucado

#6. While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#7. The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

George Herbert

#8. What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Varley O'Connor

#9. [Sex] is only a mirage, floating in shimmering mockery before the bulging eyes of middle-aged men as they stumble with little whimpers toward the double bed, that somewhere there is a person that will evoke from them sensations of which they dimly dream they are capable.

Quentin Crisp

#10. Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

Saint Patrick

#11. Spokane, for example, has a law prohibiting sitting and lying on the street. Unless you're sitting and lying outside the Apple Store waiting for an iPhone 6, in which case it's O.K.

Anonymous

#12. I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

Maggie Shayne

#13. I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I will update, but I'm on there myself under a pseudonym, because there were a lot of people able to private-message me on Facebook, and it was getting really weird.

Patton Oswalt

#14. Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.

John Spence

#15. It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

Sarah Polley