Distraire Quotes & Sayings

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves. — Michel Onfray

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting. — Sherry Thomas

Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself. — Courtney Maum

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stop barking. — Proverb

[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember. — James Goss

Overcome with anger, David grabbed her other arm. Why did she have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she see how good The Wave could be? "We can stop you, and we will! — Morton Rhue

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead ... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. — Thomas Huxley

Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation. — Chungliang Al Huang

[Fatherhood] is everything ... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world ... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is ... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything. — Brad Pitt

Don't worry ... three vampire meanies and a horse won't keep me away from you."
Kalina looked at Jaegar.
Jaegar shrugged. "If you don't get it, it's before your time."
"And what time is that?"
"The Dark Ages ... that's why you've never heard of it before. Everything was kept in the dark ... — Kailin Gow

Somehow, I think the fact that the inceptor looked like a cross between a young George Clooney and Orlando Bloom might have played into that a little bit. — Ally Carter