Curtis Rogers > Curtis's Quotes

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“I am more than just a Serious basketball fan. I am a life-long Addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
― Graham Greene

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”
― Graham Greene

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
― Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter

“He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.”
― Graham Greene, The Comedians

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy