Documentable Quotes & Sayings

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Why the hell do women always have to bring back up? It's not as if I'm going to molest her at the opera. — Poppet

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother. — Vikas Swarup

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy. — Alexander Fraser Tytler

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it. — Don Rickles

She was magnificent. She wasn't so much a person as an event, a gigantic presence. — Michelle Tea

Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think. — James Marsters

Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon. — Cherise Sinclair

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays. — Jeff Britting

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. — Jerry Gillies

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid. — Epictetus

The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again. — Ruben Papian

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth. — Daryl Hall

Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain them away. Rather, it demonstrates their physical existence as a fundamental, shared part of human nature. Spiritual experiences cannot be considered irrational, since we have seen that, given their physiological basis, experiencers' descriptions of them are perfectly rational... All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based... It is not rational to assume that the spiritual reality of core experiences is any less real than the more scientifically documentable material reality. — Sabina Magliocco

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth. — Tiger Woods