Distogliere Quotes & Sayings

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour — Thomas Jefferson

I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl holding out for something that will never happen. — Stephanie Perkins

Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy. — Dan Simmons

It was from us they learnt the secret of life: that we grow old without growing wise. They realized that nothing happened when we grew up: no blinding light on the road to Damascus, no sudden feeling of maturity. — John Le Carre

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. — John Morley

He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length. — Patrick Suskind

This one [girl] had a slight suggestion of too many chocolates. — Terry Pratchett

The way back is always shorter. — Maya Deren

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people. — George Carlin

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one, the other disappears. All the darkness in my life - the fears, neuroses, dysfunctions, and diseases - are not so much things as the absence of things. They represent not the presence of a problem but rather the absence of the answer. And the answer is love. All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love. — Marianne Williamson

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. — Pierre Bonnard

I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - some of my friends still don't know what they want to do, and they're finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I'm about three. — Pixie Lott

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era. — David Ignatius