Ascertaining Def Quotes & Sayings

After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war. — Maria Julia Hernandez

Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer. — Michael C. Hall

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics. — James Cook

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same ... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. — Aberjhani

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me! — Plutarch

Emma's gaze went from Alec to Jace, curious. "Do you worry about him?" she asked Alec, surprising a laugh out of him.
"All the time," he said. "Jace could get himself killed putting his pants on in the morning. Being his parabatai is a full-time job. — Cassandra Clare

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses. — Alex Karpovsky

I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now. — Piolo Pascual

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. — Kid Rock

I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt. — Christie Brinkley