Watchfiresupport Quotes

#1. Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Albert Camus

#2. They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.

Buck Brannaman

#3. Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Bill Watterson

#4. I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Robert Greene

#5. I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Helen Gahagan

#6. I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

Gerald Chertavian

#7. I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#8. When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

Tibor Benedek

#9. For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#10. I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Christopher Buckley

#11. FLESH
I drop my wedding ring
in holy water.
I hope it repels;
the years
of hate
and hope,
so I can finally relate
to the son we made.

Jessica Bell

#12. Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#14. The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

William Badke