Banyas And Miranda Quotes & Sayings

The ignorant mass looks upon the man who makes a violent protest against our social and economic iniquities as upon a wild beast, a cruel, heartless monster, whose joy it is to destroy life and bathe in blood; or at best, as upon an irresponsible lunatic. Yet nothing is further from the truth. As a matter of fact, those who have studied the character and personality of these men, or who have come in close contact with them, are agreed that it is their super-sensitiveness to the wrong and injustice surrounding them which compels them to pay the toll of our social crimes. The most noted writers and poets, discussing the psychology of political offenders, have paid them the highest tribute. Could anyone assume that these men had advised violence, or even approved of the acts? Certainly not. Theirs was the attitude of the social student, of the man who knows that beyond every violent act there is a vital cause. — Emma Goldman

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab. — Eva Longoria

If you even dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologise! — Muhamad Bin Ali

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler. — Fritz Todt

I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life. — W.S. Merwin

What I really enjoy is when someone who I used to have a crush on, a female from my industry, comes up to me at a party and says, 'Oh, I've been dying to meet you. I've had such a crush on you.' — Rupert Penry-Jones

Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed - and never will — Martin Wolf

I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh. — Will McIntosh

He looks down at them and arranges his face. Erasmus says that you must do this each morning before you leave your house: put on a mask, as it were. — Hilary Mantel

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings. — Susie Orbach

But he wishes the people really knew who they were mourning: the Isabel he had met on the jetty, so full of life and daring and mischief. His Izzy. His other half of the sky. — M.L. Stedman

One did not love revolution. One embraced it with horror for the sake of the deliverance to follow. — Gabrielle Warnock

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. — John Clayton