Prerevolutionary Quotes

#1. United States had committed a "number of sins" in prerevolutionary Cuba, including turning the island into "the whorehouse of the U.S.

William M. Leogrande

#2. A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Andy Stanley

#3. I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Maajid Nawaz

#4. I need ten thousand angels to walk me out the door.

Mindy McCready

#5. There is nothing as easy as being inspired.

Danielle LaPorte

#6. Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Walter Annenberg

#7. I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.

Michelle Monaghan

#8. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#11. The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

K.M. Soehnlein

#12. When Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York and one of the last of the WASP aristocrats, undertook a vast expansion of his state's university system, he did so, he said, because he thought that every citizen deserved an education that was just as good as the one that he'd received at Dartmouth.

William Deresiewicz