"Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ..."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Dark Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Silence Quotes

“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”
“I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.”
“Myrnin to Claire: "If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly.”
“You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.”

Source : "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.”
“I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.”

Source : "The Crime of Conviction" by Chuck Colson, www.christianpost.com. March 18, 2007.
“There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
“I think L.A. is L.A. I can go anywhere in the world and I'll just say I'm from L.A. But when I'm there I gotta say I'm from Carson.”

Source : Source: truelaurels.tumblr.com

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