Conversation With Amanda De Cadenet Quotes

#1. We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

James Larkin

#2. People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.

Nate Lowman

#3. Even in the face of certain adversity, a true lady always makes a graceful exit.

Jessica Jefferson

#4. Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

Jesse Jackson

#5. And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.

Jack London

#6. Tell me where you want it," I said.
Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. "You're asking me?"
"Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead.

Kim Harrison

#7. I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.

Seneca.

#8. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

John Ruskin

#10. We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. Feeling slightly better for having a bit of light to keep with her, she continued down the street, occasionally looking through a window to see the remains of a room.

Thaddeus Nowak