Raina S. > Raina's Quotes

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minded--face the truth, mademoiselle! Your friend died in the last resort, because she had not the courage to live. We may sympathize with her. We may pity her. But the fact remains--the act was hers--not another.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder in the Mews

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.”
― Patrick Henry

“...you don't just stop living because you lose someone. I thought you knew that by now. You don't quit!”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Once more into the fray...
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...”
― The Grey

“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”
― Mark Twain

“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Alas, poor YORICK!”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman