Fratricidal Destroyer Quotes

#1. Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Maya Angelou

#2. As a stone in the sea withers from water,
and a stone at the mountaintop withers from heat,
and a stone in the air withers from wind,
so a degenerate person withers from vice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

Randall Cobb

#4. We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.

George Dyson

#5. Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

Emma Thompson

#6. No doubt Pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. It removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I can't imagine Nash snickering. I can barely imagine him smiling. I think his default mode is "menace.

M. Leighton

#8. Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Woodrow Wilson

#9. Lovers should also have their days off.

Natalie Clifford Barney