Jhoon And Devan Quotes & Sayings

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. — Samuel Butler

Man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature. — Moses Finley

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?' — George Foreman

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early. — Bootsy Collins

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing ... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual ... — Laura Nyro

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives. — Jose Rodriguez

And when the dark comes, he will look up and out and see a little smudge of light that is a galaxy that exploded millions of years ago, and the oppression that had gripped his heart lifts, and he laughs, and he calls his wife and says: Look, we are seeing something that ceased to exist millions of years ago - and she sees, exactly, and laughs with him. — Doris Lessing

Rules and models destroy genius and art. — William Hazlitt

In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about. — Doris Lessing

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. — Michael Moorcock

Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills. — Richard Dawkins

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13. — Megan Abbott

No. It is not acceptable that the 6 largest financial institutions in this country have assets of almost 10 trillion dollars, and issue half of the mortgages and two-thirds of the credit cards. That is too much wealth and power in the hands of a few. If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today he'd tell us to 'break them up.' And he'd be right. These huge banks must be broken up. — Bernie Sanders