Compson Quotes

#1. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#2. And not only an architect, as General Compson said, but an artist since only an artist could have borne those two years in order to build a house which he doubtless not only expected but firmly intended never to see again.

William Faulkner

#3. And eventually your loss normalizes - it integrates into part of your everyday life and you find yourself three or five years later doing okay, changed but . . . but still able to hear your friends' voices, still telling stories about them, still thinking of them every day.

Gayle Forman

#4. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Sri Aurobindo

#5. The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. The sea refuses no river

Benjamin Compson

#7. I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me
a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

E. M. Forster

#8. There are two management styles at the Record and a constant struggle between the two: the advocates of ambiguity, and the supporters of the more aggressive "mushroom model" (keep them in the dark, and feed them shit).

Amy Rowland

#9. Work is God's great investment in you

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Michael Ignatieff

#11. Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace.

L.J.Smith

#12. That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life. I'm happy in retrospect.

Maria Semple

#13. Being a farmer is a great qualification to have to serve in the United States Congress.

Bruce Braley