Night Of The Broken Glass Quotes

#1. 'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Saul Alinsky

#2. She intoxicated him: he was breathing her, sensing her through the pores of his skin.

Neil Gaiman

#3. I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?

Monica Ali

#4. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

Roberto Goizueta

#6. She knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#7. Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore De Balzac

#8. One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Joy Williams

#9. [Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year ... what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Winston Churchill

#10. The shattered glass
Of soundproof walls
That can block the night no more
Is scattered, alas,
On the broken stillness
Of a distant, darkened shore.

L.S. Hartfield

#11. The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.

Annette Dumbach

#12. There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

John Malkovich

#13. Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.

Thomas A Kempis

#14. We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Denis Diderot

#15. If you really love each other, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish.

David Baldacci

#16. She needs to let loose, I thought you could help her."
"Isn't that your job?"
"Not yet.

Karina Halle

#17. What you become directly influences what you get.

Jim Rohn