Briefly Synonym Quotes & Sayings

(he was a great believer in the healing powers of cheerfulness, if not of open mirth). Yet he had some faults, and one was a habit of dosing himself, generally from a spirit of enquiry, as in his period of inhaling large quantities of the nitrous oxide and of the vapour of hemp, to say nothing of tobacco, bhang in all its charming varieties in India, betel in Java and the neighbouring islands, qat in the Red Sea, and hallucinating cacti in South America, but sometimes for relief from distress, as when he became addicted to opium in one form or another; and now he was busily poisoning himself with coca-leaves, whose virtue he had learnt in Peru. — Patrick O'Brian

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent. — John Connally

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans. — Kohta Hirano

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music. — Oliver Sim

Sometimes life is truly woeful. — Arto Paasilinna

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen. — Samantha Power

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly. — Tibor Fischer

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason. — Adolf Hitler

He wrapped his hand around my wrist, pulled me to him, and kissed me. The kiss was warm and short. — Janet Evanovich

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders. — Vito Fossella