Distraint Quotes & Sayings

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you. — Michael Josephson

All Creatures know that some must die
That all the rest may take and eat;
Sooner or later, all transform
Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat.
But Man alone seeks Vengefulness,
And writes his abstract Laws on stone;
For this false Justice he has made,
He tortures limb and crushes bone.
Is this the image of a god?
My tooth for yours, your eye for mine?
Oh, if Revenge did move the stars
Instead of Love, they would not shine. — Margaret Atwood

At college, she found the fashion courses "disposable" and more current than the film texts that she studied.[14] Maya told Arthur magazine "[Students there were] exploring apathy, dressing up in some pigeon outfit, or running around conceptualising... It missed the whole point of art representing society. Social reality didn't really exist there; it just stopped at theory. — M.I.A.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not. — Lester R. Brown

We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see. — Pauly Shore

The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945) — Adolf Hitler