Fortunately Unfortunately Book Quotes

#1. And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#2. Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Miguel De Unamuno

#4. 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

Dave Barry

#5. Such is the magic of Christmas in childhood, thought the Count a little wistfully, that a single gift can provide one with endless hours of adventure while not even requiring one to leave one's house.

Amor Towles

#6. She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.

Terry Pratchett

#7. A man without trust might as well be dead.

Robert Jordan

#8. He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]
Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Idries Shah

#9. If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?

John Berendt

#10. And before he knew what he was doing, he reached out and with a thumb brushed away one teardrop glistening in that mauve crescent beneath her eyes.
And then he looked down at his thumb, and rubbed the tear out of existence, right into his skin.

Julie Anne Long