Cairncross Soviet Quotes

#1. Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

Robertson Davies

#2. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Daniel Webster

#3. Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

Samuel Johnson

#4. All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#5. I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.

Colum McCann

#6. Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Henry St. John

#7. Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Gertrude Stein

#8. I got both hands on her throat and there was nothing inside me but the black madness of that desire to kill her, to close my hands until she turned purple and lay still and there'd be an end to her forever. Let them send me to the chair. Let 'em burn me. All they could do was kill me.

Charles Williams

#9. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

#10. What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's ... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

Diane Arbus

#11. I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

Bill Maher

#12. What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

Laverne Cox

#13. My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

Anne Lamott