38555 Quotes & Sayings

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. — Edward Snowden

If I was pulling your hair, you'd be too busy screaming my name, and I'd be too deep inside you for you to run anyway." Darkest Sin — Mandy Harbin

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time. — Carol Windley

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this? — Grover Norquist

Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority — Francois Du Toit

Moderation is the secret of survival. — Manly Hall

We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region. — Adel Al-Jubeir

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate. — Joan Didion

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess

I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a genius and just a lovely soul, and I wanted her voice on it. And she agreed, which is just the coolest thing, ever. She knocked it out of the park. — Jenji Kohan

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time. — Jack Kirby

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable. — Margaret J. Wheatley

When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place! — Jamie Oliver