Jurgiel Quotes & Sayings

Mrs Draper took this as an order for her departure, and crept silently out of the room, closing the door behind her with the long protracted elaborate click which is always produced by an attempt at silence on such occasions. — Anthony Trollope

Sometimes when life kicks you in the ass, you have to kick it back. In the nuts. With steel-toed boots. Essentially, if someone, anyone, kicks you, it is very mature to take the high-road and not kick them back. But it's not fun. And I'm all about fun. One hundred percent fun. One fundred percent. — Sara Wolf

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. — Abraham Lincoln

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought. — Ted Sarandos

The church that emphasises on miracles are indirectly preaching that merit does not mater. — Sunday Adelaja

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. — John Charles Polanyi

Violent hatred of one's neighbors gives a man a permanent sense of purpose. — Melissa McPhail

[...] it is rare for a
man who teaches to know his subject thoroughly;
for if he studies it as he ought, he has in most
cases no time left in which to teach it. [...] — Arthur Schopenhauer

Every straight line can be forced into a curve! — Jean Sasson

I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times. — Andy Dick

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end. — Oliver Goldsmith

Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.
Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they were
redecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard. — Janet Evanovich

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough. — Christopher Hitchens