"Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. But where does one find it?"
Ian Bytchekhas quoted2 days ago
But, you see, my father was a bishop—and of all his teachings there was only one sentence that I accepted: ‘All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.’”
Ian Bytchekhas quoted8 days ago
When he preaches contradictions, he does so in the knowledge that someone will accept the burden of the impossible, someone will make it work for him at the price of his own suffering or life; destruction is the price of any contradiction.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted10 days ago
This was Mulligan’s concept of wealth, she thought—the wealth of selection, not of accumulation.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted11 days ago
He pressed the starter, the motor’s explosion blasted the story contained in the silence, and they drove on.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted11 days ago
She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted18 days ago
There was one sleepy attendant at the airfield, young, pudgy and, but for a faint smell of college about his vocabulary, a brain brother of the night dispatcher of Bradshaw.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted19 days ago
The demanding resentment was breaking loose, in small, crackling puffs, like chestnuts popping open in the dark oven of the minds who now felt certain that they were taken care of and safe.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted19 days ago
There they were, she thought, the men of the new age, the demanders and recipients of self-sacrifice.
Ian Bytchekhas quoted24 days ago
Only I think that it’s a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.”