Geneukt Worden Quotes

#1. If we put a gun to her head she would sing all day. Try it first with a bird, General Benjamin said gently to Alfredo. Like our soprano, they have no capacity to understand authority. The bird doesn't know enough to be afraid and the person holding the gun will only end up looking like a lunatic.

Ann Patchett

#2. Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Art Buchwald

#3. Cruelty had been his weapon. But such a tool is dangerous and can spread further than you intend.

Ross Turner

#4. Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

Butch Harmon

#6. For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Arthur Miller

#7. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

Tig Notaro

#8. No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. Did the ancient Gaels not wear undergarments?" Frank leered. "You've never heard that old song about what a Scotsman wears beneath his kilts?

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

Billy Joel

#11. It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#12. To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.

T.R. Fehrenbach