Tarrou Flight Quotes

#1. I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Edmund Burke

#2. The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson

#3. Her real name will come later, but her current code name is Petunia.

Mike Brown

#4. Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.

Ragnar Frisch

#5. Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

Gioconda Belli

#6. A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

Charley Pride

#7. You're allowed to look, sweetheart, he murmured, running a finger down her hot cheek. I enjoy having your eyes on me.

Cherise Sinclair

#8. Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.

Kelly Kim

#9. A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Emily Greene Balch

#10. I am the master of my destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset.

Riz Ahmed

#12. In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

John Updike