Disloyalties Shades Quotes

#1. Be more than you seem to be.

Frederick The Great

#2. The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.

Rick Perlstein

#3. In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Martin H. Fischer

#4. Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Mignon McLaughlin

#5. True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal

#6. The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Shelley Berman

#7. The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

Ondjaki

#8. Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less.

Jim Butcher

#9. A country facing an aggressive enemy must decide either to be prepared to fight effectively or to follow the path of nonviolence to the end. In either case, the decision must be wholehearted and the consequences must be accepted.

Freeman Dyson

#10. Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me.
"Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Simone Elkeles