Defiendo La Quotes & Sayings

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. — Orson Welles

The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable; and he is never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates. Art is man's nature. We are as much, at least, in a state of nature in formed manhood, as in immature and helpless infancy. — Edmund Burke

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. — Charles Krauthammer

Everything-less. The lack of everything. Synonym to nothing. I am everything-less without you. — Aundrea Ascencio

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. — William Thomas

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict ... " What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies. — Harold Pinter

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy. — George Clooney

If one could see an infinite distance, they would observe the back of their head. That is Einstein's theory in a nut-shell. — R. Alan Woods

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece. — Rebecca Lobo

Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream.
-Westcliff — Lisa Kleypas

Andrus turned the engine and gave her a suspicious look. "You smell like ... " He shifted into drive. "What?" "Nothing, but - did something happen inside?" Could he really smell ... that? He crinkled his nose. "Your face is red and your scent is ... " Oh, God. He can! Kill me now! Giant bomb, falling tree, spontaneous combustion ... anything! — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, "humanity". — Friedrich Nietzsche

When we recognize the fraud for what it is, we feel incredibly stupid. Something more than our bank accounts is damaged - our egos are damaged. As a result, it's almost impossible for the marketer to regain our trust. — Seth Godin

The attempts to try to represent the electric field as the motion of some kind of gear wheels, or in terms of lines, or of stresses in some kind of material have used up more effort of physicists than it would have taken simply to get the right answers about electrodynamics. It is interesting that the correct equations for the behavior of light were worked out by MacCullagh in 1839. But people said to him: 'Yes, but there is no real material whose mechanical properties could possibly satisfy those equations, and since light is an oscillation that must vibrate in something, we cannot believe this abstract equation business'. — Richard Feynman