Escribas Quotes & Sayings

The people were shocked to find out that their vote is worthless because of the major fraud that takes place in Iraq. — Saleh Al-Mutlaq

Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe. — Steven Pinker

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. — Clint Eastwood

He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful. — Peter Chrysologus

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. — Thomas More

I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room. — Daniel Handler

No, Joy, you just think gin makes you brilliant. Gin makes you sotted. Chocolate makes you brilliant. — Katie MacAlister

Oppression and the forcing of submission do not begin in the office, factory, or political party; they begin in the very first weeks of an infant's life. Afterward they are repressed and are then, because of their very nature, inaccessible to argument. Nothing changes in the character of submission or dependency, when it is only their object that is changed. — Alice Miller

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man. — Wernher Von Braun

Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own. — J.B. MacKinnon

We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. — William Cobbett

It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. — Miriam Toews