Dimanakah Pulau Quotes & Sayings

The arguments in favour of offering something to a previously disprivileged group are all very well and they do have weight. But much more important is the effect of this on the institution of marriage. My view is that here we need some serious anthropology. You have to recognise that rites of passage are not personal possessions, they are possessions of the whole community, they are the ways in which the community defines itself and defines its obligation towards the next generation. So you don't make these radical, metaphysical alterations to an institution such as marriage without there being long-term consequences. And nobody seemed to want to talk about the long-term consequences. — Roger Scruton

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man. — Elbert Hubbard

I have to remind myself to breathe
almost to remind my heart to beat! — Emily Bronte

Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury. "Ritzonia," he wrote in 1909, "carries its inmates like a wishing carpet from place to place, the same people, the same meals, the same music. Within its walls you might be at Peking or Prague or Paris or London and you would never know where. — Richard Davenport-Hines

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar. — Saint Augustine

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling

Dead men told no tales, according to the generally held view. — Raymond L. Atkins

By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural ... fancy machine. — George W. Bush

I had much more fun criticizing than praising. — William F. Buckley Jr.

The little man with beard and glasses leaped up. 'There's nobody here has anything to do with governments! We're all good people! — Philip K. Dick

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief. — William, Saroyan

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief. — Ernest Bevin