Underjaw Quotes

#1. He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Violence destroyed families. Violence destroyed lives.

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He'd never been a violent man, but he'd seen it. It killed the spirit and left families fearful and hopeless.

Gail Gaymer Martin

#4. Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states.

Hannah Arendt

#5. By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

James Buchan

#6. I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#7. Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.

S.E. Hinton

#8. It had been one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and I'd swallowed half the pond in the process, but I'd gotten the gist of it, managed to conquer my blind panic and terror and trust myself.

Sarah J. Maas