Dissensions Movie Quotes & Sayings

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain. — Seneca The Younger

For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions. — Czeslaw Milosz

After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being. — Jerome Lejeune

Rae!" I shove his shoulder. "You can't do that! You can't snoop about you through me!""Why not? How else were you going to repay me for this favor?" The corner of his mouth tips up. "Plus, wouldn't you ask her that?""Oh. My. God! That's not the point," I scold, but after a moment ask, "What did she say? — E.J. Mellow

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce. — Geena Davis

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart. — Bruno Mars

We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into your bedroom and then your bed. — Isabelle Rowan

Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right — Ravi Zacharias

Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to be conceived as an inconsequential vehicle or passage for real powers that always originate elsewhere. — Geoffrey Batchen

I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous. — Antony Starr

Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird. — Russell Shorto

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality. — D. Anne Paris

A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitutes for me an interesting face. For this reason the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarcely been touched by life. — Doris Ulmann

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. — Newt Gingrich