Callista Court Quotes

#1. I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.

Jed S. Rakoff

#2. It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Dan O'Brien

#3. I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Omar Khayyam

#4. Parenthood always has its individual structure. And it's a risky business. You do your best.

J.D. Robb

#5. Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

John Allen Fraser

#6. On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

Nora Gallagher

#7. Of course there had been clues. A bite of the lip. An indrawn breath. Wrinkled brows and shrugged shoulders. A few false starts at conversations about work and balance, but the real alarms should have gone off when all of that faded.
Silence chilled like nothing else.

Zoe York

#8. The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Anthony Robbins

#9. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

Joseph Brodsky

#10. Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

Leonardo Sciascia

#11. Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

David Maister

#12. Life is warfare.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca