Fabrications Richland Quotes & Sayings

The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness — Winston S. Churchill

I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. — Michael Caine

Where once his grandparents put up crucifixes and images of the benediction on their walls, he and Reine-Marie put up books on theirs. History books. Reference books. Biographies. Fiction, nonfiction. Stories lined the walls and both insulated them from the outside world and connected them to it. — Louise Penny

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions — Ogden Nash

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'
... 'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Pissing off PETA is as easy as pie. Delicious kitten pie. — Stephen Colbert

In the hierarchy of moral development, as defined by Lawrence Kohlberg, the lowest level is "following rules only to avoid punishment." The highest level is "following rules because they are right and good. — Jerry L. Wyckoff

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right. — Mark Knopfler

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum. — T. S. Eliot

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Antisthenes