Language In The Handmaids Tale Quotes

#1. From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Alfred Rosenberg

#2. Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.

Curt Flood

#3. The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.

Dorothy McFalls

#5. See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

M. Night Shyamalan

#6. all looked like those Ravensburger puzzles my brother held so dearly in his room, framed, like trophies of precious time spent pointlessly, hanging from all four of his walls. Thousands

Natali Grayling

#7. I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

Viola Davis

#8. I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It's just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.

Sheila Heti

#9. It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are.

Sarah Pinborough

#10. I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

Kathy Valentine

#11. But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

Jim Cantalupo

#12. Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Walter Bagehot

#13. Life is too short to read bad books or drink bad wine.

Joy Daniels

#14. Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears, - these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.

Victor Hugo