Patshreba Brown Quotes

#1. Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Charles Colson

#2. What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Mary Hunter Austin

#3. Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

#4. We should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.

John Calvin

#5. He says racing is doing. It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.

Garth Stein

#6. We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

Andrew O'Hagan