Arbitraire Def Quotes & Sayings

The Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity or Libertad Act of 1996, better known as the Helms-Burton Act, was passed by the 104th United States Congress on March 6, 1996 and enacted into law by President Bill Clinton on March 12, 1996. Its intention was to bolster and continue the United States embargo against Cuba. It also opposes Cuban membership in international institutions, and prohibits commercial television broadcasts from the United States to Cuba. Further, the law provides for protection of the property rights of certain United States nationals and the property formerly owned by U.S. citizens but confiscated by Cuba after the Cuban revolution, The Act is named for the original sponsors, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, and Representative Dan Burton of Indiana. — Hank Bracker

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

People cannot be controlled. Only our reactions can. — Mary Mihalic

rolled down. As I — Helga Sellmain

Yeah. Good." I clear my throat. "So, this plan. It's kind of stupid, right?"
"It's not ... stupid."
"Oh, come on. Trusting Marcus is stupid. Trying to get past the Dauntless at the fence is stupid. Going against the Dauntless and factionless is stupid. All three combined is ... a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind."
"Unfortunately it's also the best plan we have," she points out. "If we want everyone to know the truth. — Veronica Roth

First there is nightmare. Then come the memories. Now she must hunt'. — Courtney Allison Moulton

Beings we can hardly imagine or understand. — Kat Beyer

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well. — George Matthew Adams

The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot. — George R R Martin

bhole whose form no man might see. — H.P. Lovecraft

We tell you, tapping on our brows,
The story as it should be,
As if the story of a house
Were told or ever could be. — Edwin Robinson

I know we just met today, but I gotta see you tomorrow. I know this is our first date, I don't expect you to swallow. — Ted Nugent

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time, — Lady Gaga

You cope knowing I love you, that's how you cope. I fucking love you, he hisses. — Katy Evans

I had the patience to sit like a fool with these people, listening to them for four hours on end, and never daring say a word or knowing what to say. I would fall into a stupor and break out in perspiration again and again. Paralysis hung over me. But it was good and beneficial. When I returned home, I would put away my longing to embrace all of humanity for a while. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky