Dictatorial Life Quotes & Sayings

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type — Fran Lebowitz

Sometimes poetry
words
give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. — Patricia MacLachlan

In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it. — Epictetus

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat. — Barry Marshall

If anything, people think it's cool that I'm still working. I'm proud to be a working mama in this world. — Megan Alexander

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing. — Shonda Rhimes

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying. — Tatiana Maslany

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure. — Nenia Campbell

The unknown is a vast, paralyzing limbo. — Karen Marie Moning

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.' — Sergei Lavrov

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high. — Viktor E. Frankl

Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. "You left me," she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again around her, but she whispered, "I have no one left. No one. — Sarah J. Maas

Let go of your past. Start making history! — Julie Connor

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem. — Anatole France

Lola: No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now.

Cricket: But you'll want me someday? That feeling you once had for me ... that hasn't left either?

Lola: It never left. — Stephanie Perkins

Nobody will pay money for your book and read it if all it will talk about is YOU and YOUR experience. — Peter Garety

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me. — Kate Christensen