Affiliations Examples Quotes & Sayings

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation. — George MacDonald

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case. — Mahatma Gandhi

O memory, thou bitter sweet,
both a joy and a scourge! — Madame De Stael

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat. — Jonathan Dimbleby

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. — David Lloyd George

Back in the early 1960s, when I was eight or nine. Some neighborhood boys and I saw a disc-shaped, windowless object that hovered, silent, then simply vanished. My parents said, "That's very nice" and ignored it, but I knew what I'd seen, and it was life-changing. — Steven M. Greer

In cigarettes, we have pictures of blackened lungs on the packs. But packets of potato chips don't bear the picture of an obese heart patient, right? — Chetan Bhagat

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire. — Beverley Nichols

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. — Terry Pratchett

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation. — Rick Perlstein

Insight: if a guy I had sex with ever carved a notch into his bedpost, I'd tell him to carve one into mine too - and then to go make me a fucking sammich. — Kresley Cole

I'm Irish. We think sideways — Spike Milligan

I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows? — Mac DeMarco

She liked the way this road smelled in the evenings, like rain falling on night-blooming jasmine. Locusts sang old songs in the darkness. — Lauren Kate

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies. — Kim Harrison