Controversially Quotes

#1. The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

Ben Macintyre

#2. I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

Meg Wolitzer

#3. Most of the time, people don't mean to be rude; it's just their sadness showing through.

Sarah Jio

#4. A teenager boy is a monstrous cyborg, an unfeeling, beastly machine, not fully human, and not housebroken. Rumbustious teenage boys are an infernal organism disdainful of everything, yet intent of contributing to human evolution.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Malcolm Forbes

#6. I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

Robin Roberts

#7. My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

Donnie Yen

#8. If we just go back to the basics ... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.

Diane Hendricks

#9. I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

David Foster Wallace

#10. Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm)

Mary Doria Russell