Adrian Johnson

“Some boys grow up to be great men, some grow up to be great fathers, and while most grow up to be neither, none grow up to be both.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“...all the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forester. I doubt if there's a man alive who could follow me there ...
...when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“God is merciful, showing us our true hideousness only in proportion to the courage he gives us to bear the sight.”
― Francis Fenelon