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Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for (Ter Quotes)
We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that (Ter Quotes)
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up (Ter Quotes)
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us! But let heaven not less defend us from the beautifully spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment! (Ter Quotes)
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Just be thankful you have a glass and that there's something in it (Ter Quotes)
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved more than you'll ever know (Ter Quotes)
The key is keeping yourself to yourself. Keep your mystery. Don't give them too much information, so they can't define you (Ter Quotes)
People who speak their mind usually have the most haters, because they don't try to fit in with everyone else (Ter Quotes)
In the end, you'll know who really loves you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and no matter what, are always by your side (Ter Quotes)
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming (Ter Quotes)
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself (Ter Quotes)
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation (Ter Quotes)
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning (Ter Quotes)
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did (Ter Quotes)
A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice aforethought deliberately murdered (Ter Quotes)
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever (Ter Quotes)
[Characterizing the truthfulness of his lawyer's statement, 'There is absolutely no sex of any kind in any manner, shape, or form':] It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is (Ter Quotes)
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success (Ter Quotes)
Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils (Ter Quotes)
He was deferential, ingratiating, concerned for your pleasure, like a waiter with a tray of French pastry in his hand (Ter Quotes)
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation (Ter Quotes)
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made man feel small by showing him that the Earth was not the center of the universe (Ter Quotes)
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end (Ter Quotes)
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own (Ter Quotes)
Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants (Ter Quotes)
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing (Ter Quotes)
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do (Ter Quotes)
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity (Ter Quotes)
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge (Ter Quotes)
The best rose bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses (Ter Quotes)