Turcica Duncan Quotes

#1. Shouldn't those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?" went the popular wisdom. But it was bigotry masquerading as wisdom. Selfishness posing as enlightenment.

Neal Shusterman

#2. If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#3. Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.

Nick Dear

#4. And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

Frank Carlucci

#5. It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Robert G. Picard

#6. He seemed to read her thoughts easily, as if she were a treasured volume he had paged through a thousand times.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Aimee Teegarden

#8. Like a mountain path that ends at a cliff
I travel along the edge of your thoughts,
and my shadow falls from your white forehead,
my shadow shatters, and I gather the pieces
and go with no body, groping my way

Octavio Paz

#9. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. We were all forged in the crucible.

Gayle Forman

#11. Melody's an F5 tornado, and I've easily settled into my roll of playing National Guard and cleaning up her messes.

J.M. Darhower

#12. Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#13. I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates