Ferlanda Quotes & Sayings

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. — Edwidge Danticat

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind. — Samuel Johnson

Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes. — Pope Paul VI

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid. — Olivier Theyskens

The actual God of many Americans ... is simply the current of American life. — Charles Horton Cooley

I don't feel comfortable making empty music. — Talib Kweli

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no? — Alejandro Jodorowsky

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner

Wear a mask long enough and they grow with your skin. Try to take it off and you bleed. — Tom Barlow

The U.S. legal system is organized as an adversarial contest: in civil cases, between two citizens; in criminal cases, between a citizen and the state. Physical violence and intimidation are not allowed in court, whereas aggressive argument, selective presentation of the facts, and psychological attack are permitted, with the presumption that this ritualized, hostile encounter offers the best method of arriving at the truth. — Judith Lewis Herman

The crazy never die. — Hunter S. Thompson

Why should you have to atone for making big movies? — Emily Blunt

What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers.
"I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren't quite for me. "Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn't just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence."
I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.
"What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?"
"Everything that I don't want to be true. — Adele Griffin