Phantom Histories Quotes

#1. Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias.

Adam Phillips

#2. That is life's talent. To accept new things.

Hiroki Endo

#3. The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

Herman Gorter

#4. Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.

Sarah Waters

#5. I say to all those leaders: Do not look the other way, do not hesitate ... It is within your power to prevent a genocide.

Nelson Mandela

#6. I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. ...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.

G.E. Moore

#8. They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

Betty Smith

#9. I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

Frank Grillo

#10. It is wrong to say the U.S. should 'not take sides' in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

Howard Berman

#11. Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Sevyn Streeter