Quotes to Explore

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Author : Victor Hugo

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

Author : Tom Petty

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Author : Khalil Gibran

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Author : Plato

The American people… want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Author : Rahm Emanuel

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Author : Marcel Proust

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there’s a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn’t help him. She says, I don’t want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I’ve fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go.

Author : Teri Garr

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.