Devoided Quotes & Sayings

The crowd was getting hysterical, so I reached into my back pocket and flippe open my wallet to reveal my badge. "Official business," I announced. "Please leave the area." This had the desired effect; it deescalated the mood and prompted most of the crowd to disperse. It's funny what a plastic badge and a meaningless phrase can do. The authority of the police is anothe mass delusion that can be useful at times. I hadn't even needed to claim I was a cop; all it took was a couple of simple cues to invoke the delusion. — Robert Kroese

But I can't rewrite history. I can love only with what's left. — Suzanne Young

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance. — Robert Fripp

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value. — African Spir

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. — Winston Churchill

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down. — Jodi Picoult

When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you — Johnny Mercer

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world — Confucius