Identique Est Quotes & Sayings

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. — Mark Twain

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness. — Flannery O'Connor

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. — Zig Ziglar

I have never met a heavy heart that wasn't a phone booth with a red cape inside
Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside
Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house
But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing — Andrea Gibson

He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He — Henning Mankell

The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals. — Alexis De Tocqueville

My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything! — J. D. Souther

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. — Victor Hugo

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence. — Thomas C. Foster

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. — Frank Lloyd Wright

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. — Michael Caine

Because it worked really well for some people," I said. "Let's not lie, Hart. It worked really well for us. For humans. And more specifically for the Colonial Union. A system of government, stable for centuries, predicated on killing the shit out of everyone else and taking their land. That's practically the modus operandi of every successful human civilization to date. No wonder some of us wanted to return to it, even at the risk of destroying the Colonial Union itself. Because if we got back, we'd be meaner than ever before. — John Scalzi