Quersus Quotes

#1. Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.

David Vann

#2. People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

Maurice Sendak

#3. Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#4. The extreme paradox arose that one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous and unconventional women who ever lived was paraded before the public as a stiff, pompous little person, the 'figurehead' to an all-male imperial enterprise. This

A. N. Wilson

#5. There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

J.M. Coetzee

#6. Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

Charles Nodier

#7. Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars.

Martin Winterkorn

#8. The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Oliver DeMille

#9. Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

Tom Carper

#10. I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

Rex Smith

#11. You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the universe. Lots of people are supernovas but don't know it, they think that they're dead; they don't know that they're beautiful.

C. JoyBell C.

#12. I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.

Jim Courier