Tarrafal Quotes

#1. She had no reason to kill herself,"I say finally. "She just wasn't able to fly.

Kinoko Nasu

#2. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Samuel Johnson

#4. There's no need to shout. The truth is as loud at a whisper as at a scream.

Stacey Jay

#5. I looked inside, compelled to stare, staining the image of a dead body into my memory. I did not deserve to look away. I had to know the awfulness of war; the wickedness of our species.

Jeffrey Sands

#6. Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Lord Byron

#7. Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Byron Katie

#8. I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly
except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

Mark Twain

#9. What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

Lyle Lovett

#10. Mao had decided to make the city his new capital, and he had its name changed from Peking to Beijing.

Anchee Min

#11. Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.

Anonymous

#12. Vanishing into books, I felt held.

Akhil Sharma

#13. Many of the most frequent fallacies in economic reasoning come from the propensity, especially marked today, to think in terms of an abstraction - the collectivity, the "nation" - and to forget or ignore the individuals who make it up and give it meaning.

Henry Hazlitt

#14. True champions deal with success and failure, not just success alone.

Jeff Brown