Chapter 7 Quotes

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The great adventure; present-day studies in American nationalism

“I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“It must require bravery to be honest all the time. I wouldn't know.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“And even though it was ridiculously childish, in the end I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I've found that he way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character”
― P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

“I saw you fight last night. You sure have got some fancy moves with those swords of yours. Haven’t seen anyone move like that, well, ever, and I was in the Special Forces.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“I won't always be the odd ones going round and round in our owe little squirrel cage!”
― Corinne Willis

“So let me get this straight,” said Adam eventually, leaning forward on his crate. “Jesus came back and took all his righteous believers with him, right? Now the rest of us are stuck here for the next seven years while demons emerge every night to drag our sorry arses to Hell? Is that the gist of it?”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“A single strike parts a champion from a corpse.”
– Praesi proverb”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“It was not only anger in me. I was nineteen, and a guarded nineteen who'd worked to feel nothing in this direction, so that when I did feel it, right there in that moment, when I did feel that I loved her, it was not with reason or ritual, nor the way that makes families and homes, but the way that wrecks them, I was undone.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“Take it easy!” he shouted over the roar of the engine.
“If you want to drive, be my guest,” yelled Josh.
“I don’t know how,” Sam admitted.”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“They exchanged a quick smile - a brief recognition of the fact that each was glad of the other's presence”
― Agatha Christie, The Hollow

“The truth is, I think, she’s been handicapped by not having to earn her living at it.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“Her voice was low and emotionless, the voice of a person determined at all costs to display self-control.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“She looked at me with eyes that came back from a long distance”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“He smiled, but not a very pleasant smile. Faintly catlike.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown