Personal safety Quote by Mark Twain

“There was something reassuring about the realness of outright hostility.”

— Santino Hassell

“I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much…

— Emily Tomko

“It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down,…

— George Orwell

“Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.”

— Joanne Harris

“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy…

— Robert Hicks

“Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulating, and people had quickly adjusted to…

— Richard Russo

“Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains and smiling…

— Arthur Mathews

“We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought…

— John Knowles

“They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling…

— Arthur Machen

“Time's change and chances I have abided, held my own fairly, sought not to snare men; oath never sware I falsely against right. So…

— John Richard Green

“There was something decidedly unpleasant about him, sinister, at the same time absurd, that combination of the ludicrous and alarming soon to be widely…

— Anthony Powell