Americaine 20 Quotes & Sayings

How the hell do I know what pisses a woman off? ... Nobody knows because it can be any damn thing. It's an unsolved mystery. And the next day, that any damn thing is fine, and it's some other damn thing. No man knows. — Nora Roberts

The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city. — Henry Ward Beecher

As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it. — Shinzen Young

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart. — Bob Kerrey

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. — Lev Vygotsky

The statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent. — Frederic Bastiat

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. — Hassan Rouhani

If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough ... — Fanny Howe

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values. — Benjamin Spock

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. — George Bernard Shaw