Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.
You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob
But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.
Silence, too, can be torture.
From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.
Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.