Beinecke Fellowship Quotes

#1. Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide ... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. It's easier to break something than create it.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. The key to personal development lies in your daily routine.

Idowu Koyenikan

#4. In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

#5. You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.

Sergei Lavrov

#6. European countries need to make more of a contribution in terms of defence capabilities. It is not fair?to keep turning to our ally in the United States to contribute military forces to problems which involve our own security.

Geoff Hoon

#7. In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have to do.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Plato

#9. With the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

David Baldacci

#10. The good news is that God doesn't give up on us - even when we have given up on ourselves.

Joseph W. Walker III

#11. In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.

Maury Yeston