Diverts Define Quotes & Sayings

Its authors meant it to be ... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack. — Abraham Lincoln

The British are proud of their ability to create a muddle and then muddle through all difficulties. I must shake the British pride: muddle is not an exclusively British institution. Read descriptions, for instance, of the over-organized, wonderfully systematic and "thorough" German war machine during the last war. — George Mikes

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17. — Hari Kondabolu

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean? — Bruce Johnston

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe. — Warren Christopher

When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to infiltration by dark spirits. I've seen it so many times with addicts. You can see that they're controlled by dark energy, the way they look, their appearance, their voice, their behavior, it's not them. — Anthony Kiedis

And whatever lie he would have given, it died on his lips as they met hers. — Victoria Schwab

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside. — Ingrid Betancourt

Mistress! What would I get out of that except a passel of brats? -Scarlett O'Hara — Margaret Mitchell