Vikmane Quotes

#1. The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Tyler Cowen

#3. OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

Janet Suzman

#4. Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

Glenn Beck

#5. He's like the anti-Ben, but his attention is like a shot of adrenaline.

Jessica Calla

#6. Humor's the hardest thing to translate.

Bharati Mukherjee

#7. I thought you would like a weapon better than a rescue.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#8. The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#9. You are almost never cool to your children.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

Hesiod

#11. Numbness spread, allowing him to move his arms without the stabbing agony that had had him bathed in sweat over the last few hours.

Steven Erikson

#12. I choose to express myself.

Dan Fogelberg

#13. I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

Wendell Wilkie

#14. I always thought we were indefeatable. Like nothing could stop us. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I still do.

Josiah Morgan

#15. I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

Alan Hollinghurst