Alexander Severus Quotes & Sayings

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail — Dave Matthews Band

The average human has one breast and one testicle. — Des MacHale

No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time. — Sherrod Brown

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life — Marcus Aurelius

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The Maoris are a strong race both physically and mentally. Revengeful and cruel to their enemies, they were passionate in love and ever fearless in war. — Kate McCosh Clark

The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for very long. Their inherent greediness - the irresistible urge to place profits above politics - would sooner or later prevail, leaving communists with the need only for patience as they awaited their adversaries' self-destruction. — John Lewis Gaddis

While the changes that are necessary are actually simple, they're painful, and require courage and sacrifice. Living standards will decline in real terms. Citizens will have to save more and consume less. Working lives with lengthen. For many, retirement will be revert to being a luxury. Taxes and charges for government services will rise to match the cost of providing them. There has to be greater emphasis on the real economy - the creation and sale of goods and services. Financial institutions need to return to their actual role of supporting economic activity. — Satyajit Das

Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral ... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat. — Marcel Duchamp

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues. — Ed Sheeran

Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty. — Terry Pratchett