Proscribed Countries Quotes

#1. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

Erin Morgenstern

#2. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to efface them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. I asked for a pony. And year after year I'm disappointed.

Rob Thomas

#4. He is not a man who hurts the woman he loves.

J. Kenner

#5. The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.

Judith Butler

#6. I said might. But that's a pretty small might. Tiny.

Andy McDermott

#7. If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

Eric Alterman

#8. In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#9. respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior,

Diana Gabaldon

#10. We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11. Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.

Frank Herbert

#12. You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#13. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.

Tim O'Brien

#14. I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

Martha Gellhorn