Machinal Sparknotes Quotes

#1. The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

James Aldridge

#2. The best part of re-working a story is falling in love with the characters all over again.

M.E. Tudor

#3. When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

Eskinder Nega

#5. You know, in a society where children just about have to seek parental permission to sit on Santa's knee, the word 'paedophile' should send more shivers up your spine than the word 'druggie'.

Stephen Richards

#6. I am a recovering alcoholic.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#7. The search for the point of temperate power between competing elements of life - the national government and the states, the states and the people - was far from over.

Jon Meacham

#8. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality
It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

F. Sionil Jose

#10. The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F.H. Bradley

#12. She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?

Michael Lee West

#13. One of the hallmarks of the sign of Aquarius is the campaign for justice. Everybody is my brother. Justice is very important to me.

Morgan Fairchild

#14. The Licensor is that person with the ability and inclination to grant the rights described in the License.

Andrew St. Laurent

#15. I know I'm probably still destined to screw things up with Sutton but I've decided, until then, my soul was her bitch.

Anonymous