Advocating Quote by Ben Bradlee

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever…

— Dean Koontz

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a…

— Joseph Heller

The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between…

— Mario Puzo

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past…

— Bruce Robinson

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to…

— Daniel Coit Gilman

Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched.…

— Joseph Conrad

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil…

— Leo Tolstoy

He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He…

— Craig Ferguson

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His…

— Nicole Krauss

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the…

— Arthur Rimbaud