Thursday, April 22, 2010

That's What They Said.

-"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." Russian Proverb
-"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo
-"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." Elie Wiesel
-"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief." William Faulkner
-"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary." Ernest Hemingway
-"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's." J. D. Salinger
-"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?" Neil Gaiman
-"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it." Edgar Allan Poe
-"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country." Robert Frost
-"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over." Edna St. Vincent Millay
-"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln
-"Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind." Thomas Jefferson
-"A good indignation brings out all one's powers." Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 comment:

~Jess said...

That phrase actually indicates a lot about Russian culture. *sigh*