Fingerspitzen Taub Quotes

#1. There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.

Phil Klay

#2. It is a basic idea of practically every war mythology that the enemy is a monster and that in killing him one is protecting the only truly valuable order of human life on earth, which is that, of course, of one's own people.

Joseph Campbell

#3. In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

Dan Fogler

#4. Don't you see?" I said. "He could change every detail, but he couldn't change her." "But why?" His obtuseness frustrated me. "Because he was in love with her!" I said. "Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.

Nicole Krauss

#5. I'm constantly moving and constantly travelling, and so it's really hard to maintain a relationship in that kind of environment.

Rebel Wilson

#6. The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.

H.J. Haskell

#7. There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

Kailash Satyarthi

#8. In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd.

Jim Butcher

#9. Who was the first human being to look out a window?

Roberto Bolano