I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. Colm Toibin Read Quote
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That’s a huge question, to my mind. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
If I’m in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can’t. Jack Whitehall Read Quote
When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don’t just shut up and say it’s none of my business. Manal al-Sharif Read Quote
Literature speaks with everyone individually – it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return other than that we think and feel. Herta Muller Read Quote
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. John Dalberg-Acton Read Quote
I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people’s intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good. Elizabeth Mitchell Read Quote
