Carl Van Vechten Famous Quotes
"There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified."
Carl Van Vechten Quotations
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Katherine Paterson
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Robert Francis Kennedy
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
An act against my will is not my act.
Unknown
In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.
Legal Proverb
Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce
"Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood."
Louise Beal
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
Keri Hulme
"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
Carl Sandburg