Deplazes Peter Quotes & Sayings

I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. — Mal Peet

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president, — Wesley Clark

Jimmy, look at it realistically. You can't couple a minimum access to food with an expanding population indefinitely. Homo sapiens doesn't seem to be able to cut himself off at the supply end. He's one of the few species that doesn't limit reproduction in the face of dwindling resources. In other words - and up to a point, of course - the less we eat, the more we fuck."
"How to do you account for that?" said Jimmy
"Imagination," said Crake. "Men can imagine their own deaths ... human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else ... and live on forever. — Margaret Atwood

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people ... that touch people emotionally. — Larry Winget

Here then was the paradox of the President's speech. We normals - aided, doubtless, by our wish to be fooled, were indeed well and truly fooled ('Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur'). And so cunningly was deceptive word-use combined with deceptive tone, that only the brain-damaged remained intact, undeceived. — Oliver Sacks

You want to invite new ideas, not new rules. — Dan Heath