Blieven Quotes & Sayings

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. — Swami Vivekananda

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved. — Gaston Miron

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway. — Lord Chesterfield

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent — Kwame Nkrumah

There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge? — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

A liar is full of oaths. — Pierre Corneille

One does not have humor. It has you. — Larry Gelbart

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by. — Shirley Jackson

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m. — Tom Hodgkinson

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up. — Alison Gopnik

You can still entertain without getting a knockout. — Andre Ward