Robert Jackson Quotes

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

One has no room for vengeance, ' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

I don't have the time or the energy to hate, " says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.