Amnestied Quotes & Sayings

I have never had personal debt and never will. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort. — Yoko Ogawa

Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true. — Hal Clement

The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising. — Jean Baudrillard

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. — James Russell Lowell

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: 'Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.' But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God's goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God's blessing. For if you had trust in God's grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper. — Martin Luther

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations. — Franz Grillparzer

You make me love you,
And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do ... — Jennifer Niven

We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has become docile and easily ruled. As all geldings in nature, their thoughts are not involved with the concerns of the future and their posterity, but only with the present toil and the next meal, — Harold Wallace Rosenthal

Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity. — Barack Obama

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason. — John Green

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child. — Pink

Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it. — Shirley Hazzard

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story. — Mary J. Blige