“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Heart of the Matter
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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (30 March 1961)<br>Later variant: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.<br> California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/govspeech/01051967a.htm (5 January 1967) <br class="br">1960s <br class="br">Context: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist
As quoted in New Scientist (February 1993), p. 42
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
“The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: The Icebound Land
“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: Proverbs of Hell
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.”
Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American writer
“Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
Robin Hobb book The Mad Ship
Source: The Mad Ship
“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys
Source: Wonder Boys (1995)
“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Misattributed
“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
Christopher Hitchens Mortality
Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012), p. 91.
“Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.”
Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer
Source: Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend