Valmonte Next Door Quotes

#1. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Cynthia Ozick

#2. We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Kate Elliott

#3. Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Billy Graham

#4. Leadership on virtue can never come from the major political actors; it will have to come from a movement of people, such as the people of a town who come together and agree to create moral coherence across the many areas of children's lives.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

Harry Woodburn Chase

#6. So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#7. Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Arundhati Roy

#8. My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

Alexander Payne