Jorquera Portero Quotes & Sayings

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? — Thomas Paine

Somethingism is better than nihilism. — Anthony Marais

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at. — Rory Freedman

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past. — Alan Jackson

For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me? — William Shakespeare

Alan sensed Bull as liability, pure liability, triple liability. Alan was now having an affair with a man who had a cunt in the back of his leg. Worse still, the man was his patient. At the very least he would be struck off ... — Will Self

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap. — Diplo

Ethics based on this faultily quoted verse have changed nothing in post-Gandhi India, save the color of its administration. From a hungry man's point of view, though, it's all the same who makes him hungry. I submit that he may even prefer a white man to be responsible for his sorry state if only because this way social evil may appear to come from elsewhere and may perhaps be less efficient than the suffering at the hand of his own kind. With an alien in charge, there is still room for hope, for fantasy.
Similarly in post-Tolstoy Russia, ethics based on this misquoted verse undermined a great deal of the nation's resolve in confronting the police state. What has followed is known all too well: six decades of turning the other cheek transformed the face of the nation into one big bruise, so that the state today, weary of its violence, simply spits at that face. As well as at the face of the world. — Joseph Brodsky

We don't see the truth with our eyes, we see the truth with our heart. — Kate McGahan

It's great to be young and a Yankee! — Waite Hoyt

our amnesia is a state-sponsored sport. — Louisa Lim

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. — Algernon H. Blackwood

Actually, Pretty in Pink's Steff might be the most deliciously contemptible rich douchebag in all of cinema history. — Jen Chaney

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale. — Will Self