Top 15 Giller Prize Quotes
#1. I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Penn Jillette
#2. Inside your soul is the ability to survive even the toughest storms, and that paradise can always be found
even in the middle of a hurricane
if you are willing to look.
Denise Hildreth Jones
#4. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents
A. Lee Martinez
#5. I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
Colin Firth
#6. Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.
Golo Mann
#7. The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.
Julie Rivkin
#8. Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.
Janny Wurts
#10. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.
Jim Butcher
#11. The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
Edith Hamilton
#12. Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Anita Brookner
#13. Look up, always. Look back, never.
Karen Quan
#14. Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.
Herbert Spencer
#15. Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
Daniel Berrigan
