Wanda Scheppe > Wanda's Quotes

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“He sounds like a politician running for office.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“How did I become President?
I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“Are you telling me that even though it’s changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been helped any by the molding he had received at the hands of society. The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork. He was a beast - a human beast, it is true, but nevertheless so terrible a beast that he can best be characterized as carnivorous.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
― Robin Waterfield, Republic