Substantively Unfair Quotes

#1. He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

Publilius Syrus

#2. I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

#3. I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

John Baldessari

#4. For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.

Nancy B. Brewer

#5. You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That's what matters.

Craig Lancaster

#6. Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

Pythagoras

#7. Lord Uthe once said I wouldn't be the one at the head of the army, storming the castle. I'd be the engineer, tunneling beneath to bring the whole thing crashing down.

Anonymous

#8. And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of my memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored. In a way, it was an advantage.

Albert Camus

#9. I want a language that speaks the truth.

Studs Terkel

#10. But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Normally I laugh at such things, because there is nothing like a fart to lighten up a tense situation.

Kevin Hearne