Barbus Tetrazona Quotes & Sayings

Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester's cap and bells. — Michel Foucault

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. — Cullen Hightower

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. — Karsten Harries

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care. — John Barrasso

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual. — Franz Beckenbauer

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now. — Marcel Proust

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. — Bell Hooks

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role. — Jaggi Vasudev

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Nicholas Kristof

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74) — Donald Rothberg

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. — David Brin

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh

I had nothing to feel guilty about. I had no one to answer to. I could look back upon my short life with Scott and I could smile. My youth and my happiness, I had once thought bitterly, had been taken from me prematurely, and without anything to fill the void left by their absence. But they were being reclaimed, fought for, declared the property of someone who was brave enough to suffer me, to try and understand me. — Vee Hoffman