Inquisition Sera Quotes & Sayings

Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you, was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength: if no one can be found willing to burden her or himself with such a fat, weak, puffy, useless thing, you cry out that you are ill-treated, neglected, miserable. Then, too, existence for you must be a scene of continual change and excitement, or else the world is a dungeon: you must be admired, you must be courted, you must be flattered - you must have music, dancing, and society - or you languish, you die away. Have you no sense to devise a system which will make you independent of all efforts, and all wills, but your own? — Charlotte Bronte

Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it. — Marc Ian Barasch

I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else. — Colin Trevorrow

Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more of a challenge to do it without paper or sidekicks. I enjoy a good challenge. — Ab-Soul

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes ... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know ... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. — John Sebastian

Smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he — Danielle Steel

Whatever you want you must ask.
You get want you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication. — David James Duncan