Verre Eye Quotes

#1. None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Albert Camus

#2. I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Laura Vandervoort

#3. As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Robert Quillen

#4. I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

Dana Spiotta

#5. The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Thomas Frank

#6. It was the day after Thanksgiving. I was the 3 p.m. backwaiter, but the trains were running irregularly, and while I had heard one sighing into the station as I ran down the stairs, my card was out of money. Which is to say, I was late.

Stephanie Danler

#7. So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.

Noreena Hertz