"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has." ― Anita Brookner Topic(s): Freedom More From Anita Brookner "Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of." "The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule." "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything." More In Freedom "Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members’ paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses."― Mitt Romney "The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction."― Nassau William Senior "Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."― William Hazlitt