Verbatim Double Quotes

#1. I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

Harriet Harman

#2. Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.

Eleanor Morse

#3. Bren can handle it," she said finally. "And if he can't, he'll let you know. He won't let his ego choke the shit out of him.

Kit Rocha

#4. The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#5. In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.

Alessandro Baricco

#6. There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

Gene Sharp