"Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory"

-- John Pugsley

#Men Quotes #Victory Quotes #Ships Quotes

“There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.”
“We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.”
“Where am I when I am involved in a book?”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2015). “Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age”, p.153, Macmillan
“Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.”
“I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.”
“They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians. This is because they are defeated here. HAMAS will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region.”
“The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.”
“Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.”

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