Distractie Placuta Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat. — Lance Morrow

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. — Bernard Lown

Once assumptions are set in play they tend to justify additional assumptions. — Steven Redhead

No one that night turned
into literature, nothing that we did or didn't
entered the mythology of boys growing into men
or girls fighting to be people. — Philip Levine

There was nothing a man couldn't do with three thousand dollars and a suitcase full of canned tuna fish and pregnancy brassieres. The car was called an El Camino for a reason. (Telegraph Avenue, p399) — Michael Chabon

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness. — Lauryn Hill

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road. — Chiang Kai-shek

The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against. — John Crowley

The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan. — Des Browne

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. — H.G.Wells

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy. — John Barrasso