Gobseck Balzac Quotes

#1. She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt.

Samuel Beckett

#2. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience ... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

#4. But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.

Bauvard

#6. Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

John Quincy Adams

#7. Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Doug Cooper

#8. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips

#9. If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

Roustam Tariko

#10. The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Corliss Lamont