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“Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.”
Source : Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 11, 2009.
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“The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.”
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“There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.”
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“The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.”
Source : Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”
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“The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.”
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“I had a direct experience of the efficacy of this form of mind-body medicine. This comes from somebody who had been sort of an alpha male, highly cynical war correspondent, who had basically seen it all and heard it all, was cynical and trusted nothing.”
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“Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”
Source : J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.72, Penguin
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“You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.”