Fissao Quotes & Sayings

The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing. — Alan Keyes

MENO: And how will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want, how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know? SOCRATES: I know, Meno, what you mean; but just see what a tiresome dispute you are introducing. You argue that a man cannot enquire either about that which he knows, or about that which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire; and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject about which he is to enquire (Compare Aristot. Post. Anal.). — Plato

When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate. — Bert Blyleven

I think what it is is do not depend on the president to get you over the line. Do not depend on the fundraising, on the turnout operation, the president's own popularity, because it's not going to work. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and
when you don't. — Lauren Oliver

Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable. — Luce Irigaray

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life. — Doug Stanhope

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare

To believe that life's problems will somehow work themselves out, everything bad is fixable and something about samsara has to be worth fighting for makes it virtually impossible to nurture a genuine, all-consuming desire to practise the dharma. The only view that truly works for a dharma practitioner is that there are no solutions to the sufferings of samsara and it cannot be fixed. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

I allow my inner joy wellspring to be unbounded and free, to power me up, and to keep me radiantly healthy! — Amy Leigh Mercree

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. — Nick Hornby

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world. — Alan Dershowitz

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction. — R.C. Sproul