He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

...in those days children were rather out of fashion.

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.

I don't want you to go," Sam said. She was upset. "I don't want this to end like this." "You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

Goals are discovered, not made.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.