Earle Birney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.
I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

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