Ostrovsky Square Quotes

#1. If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

Alexandra Bracken

#2. Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.

Luis Gutierrez

#3. Sometimes there doesn't seem to be any right or wrong, just circumstances. You make the best decision you can at the time and move on.

George W. Parker

#4. It is not that you know nothing about war, young man ... It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.

Richard Flanagan

#5. You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.

Anna Chlumsky

#6. Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Sinclair Lewis

#7. Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.

Patrick Kavanagh

#8. Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

Pete Sessions

#10. It's all a chase, and when the race is done, I think I pity women chaste who run.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. And swear each night to let her go, then love more by dawn.

Lang Leav

#12. Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions ... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich Hayek

#13. And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

Jane Mayer