The Cousins War Quotes

#1. The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

Norman Cousins

#2. Back there or maybe even taken an actual shit, and then tried to cover it up with a bunch of coconut air freshener that smelled like suntan lotion. The seats were greasy, and patched with duct tape, and the shocks were nearly gone. Whenever we struck a

Donna Tartt

#3. Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

Mark Labberton

#4. They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

Philippa Gregory

#5. What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

William Law

#6. Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

Titania Hardie

#7. The Goldschmidts had joined forces with other Rothschild cousins, the Bischoffsheims, to form a banking partnership which financed the North in the American Civil War.

David Icke

#8. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

Philippa Gregory

#9. This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Philippa Gregory

#10. Those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.

Aristotle.

#11. Nothing can justify injustice.

Ayn Rand

#12. Insane", he says simply. "Hopeless. The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son his a devil and should not.

Philippa Gregory

#13. When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

Philippa Gregory

#14. Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

Spencer Grammer

#15. People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

Stephen Young

#16. Dear Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am

Anonymous

#17. He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.

Philippa Gregory

#18. I don't know how much we will rise," I say stoutly. "And I have no fear of falling.
He looks at me. "You are ambitious to rise?"
"We are all on fortune's wheel," I say. "Without a doubt we will rise. We may fall. But still I have no fear of it.

Philippa Gregory

#19. I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

Charles Farrar Browne

#20. I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.

Philippa Gregory

#21. War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Norman Cousins

#22. The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

Norman Cousins

#23. I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Aaron Ciechanover