Duemilaventi Quotes & Sayings

Brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar. — Mira Grant

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it. — Doug Casey

She shielded her eyes with a salute to the afternoon sun. "Right there, where the ground is blackened, just to the left of that cloud, that's where the Presidential Palace stood." Rotating in a slow circle, her index finger pressed the past into the empty panorama. The market selling Levi's two decades before any licensed clothing store. The music college, where some years earlier a prodigy had learned to play the viola by listening to the two-hundred-year history of chamber music lilting through those open windows. She reconstructed the square for Akhmed - her voice raised every edifice from the dust, replanted every linden tree - because that was easier than apology. — Anthony Marra

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions. — R. J. Reynolds

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity. — Tariq Ramadan

My sincerity is my credentials. — Malcolm X

It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past. — Mohsin Hamid

The first step in taking control of a nation, Arteth, is the simplest. You find someone to hate. — Brandon Sanderson

And somewhere, buried away deep inside him, a hidden chamber of his heart opened. — Ari Berk

I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally. — Tim Leiweke

It's time to take decisive action to stop American and other multinationals from aiding and abetting the wrong side in the global digital arms race. — Rebecca MacKinnon

When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places. — C.S. Lewis

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.] — Ludwig Feuerbach