Deserted – Quotes

Curiosity ran unchecked through

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain. Gabrielle Roy

I started talking about

I started talking about things that everybody could relate to. And that’s not to say I deserted my roots, I just found a way to talk about things in a broad way. Gabriel Iglesias

There’s the juiciest music

There’s the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I’m stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it’s there. Esperanza Spalding

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer

(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men … Read more

In a democracy the

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority…and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince … Read more

Words deserted him immediately.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to. E. M. Forster

God created us in

God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in the world and in ourselves can separate us finally from that joy, because whatever else it means to say that God created us in His image, I think it means that even when … Read more