928 Area Quotes & Sayings

You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations. — L. Ron Hubbard

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow. — Michel De Montaigne

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists. — Stella Benson

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right. — Bryan Caplan

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure. — Chris Van Allsburg

My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.' — Edward Kitsis

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. — Patti Smith

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by. — Helen Keller

His presence, so strange and wonderful, seemed to fill the room and press against me. I didn't think I'd ever sleep again. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap. I figured out how to jam their person-tracking technology. I can turn innocent people into suspects and turn guilty people into innocents in their eyes. I could get metal onto an airplane or beat a no-fly list. I figured this stuff out by looking at the web and by thinking about it. If I can do it, terrorists can do it. They told us they took away our freedom to make us safe. Do you feel safe? — Cory Doctorow

Wouldn't you like to believe you're the center of someone's universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn't matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way? — D.A. Rhine

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge. — N. T. Wright

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job. — Jeff Britting