Unbendable Umbrellas Quotes

#1. The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison

#2. History is not a fixed truth. It changes with the speaker.

Jenn Reese

#3. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Aristotle.

#4. Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

Lena Horne

#5. We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

Barack Obama

#6. I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

Diogenes

#7. The haze cleared. My finger twitched, but I had not pulled the trigger. A figure stood from a crouch in the dust; he had fallen from above. He wore a black coat-thin, like a lab coat-dark trousers, black boots, and a pair of goggles over his eyes.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

Herbert Hoover

#9. The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

John Ruskin

#10. The colour of her hair was dusky red, like a fire under control but still dangerous.

Raymond Chandler