Left Quote by Walter Scott

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody…

— Tony Kushner

“He talked about luck and fate and numbers coming up, yet he never ventured a nickel at the casinos because he knew the house…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not call out,…

— James Baldwin

“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.”

— Salman Rushdie

and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps…

— Cormac McCarthy

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was…

— Christopher Paolini

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of…

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.

— Emilio Castelar

He who wins the race,never lends a helping hand.He inherits Glory. He who lends a helping hand,never wins the race.He inherits Dignity.

— Jesse Julian Lazarus

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind