Codefendant Quotes

#1. When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life with the recognition that, all in all, you got better than you deserved.

David Brooks

#3. It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#4. I have observed that there always exists some strange relationship between the appearance of a man and his soul, as if with the loss of a limb, the soul lost one of its senses.

Mikhail Lermontov

#5. Wander at will,
Day after day,
Wander away,
Wandering still
Soul that canst soar!
Body may slumber:
Body shall cumber
Soul-flight no more.

Robert Browning

#6. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

Suzanne Collins

#7. And when you are presented with an opportunity, you may not just know.

Jeff Goins

#8. I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

Tim Gunn

#9. In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.

Bill Dedman

#10. My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

#12. I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.

Adrien Brody

#13. When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#14. Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Thomas De Quincey

#15. When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same conduits would broadly irrigate the economy with purchasing power.

Louis O. Kelso

#16. I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

John Lubbock