Kanlurang Asya Quotes & Sayings

I have to say that the judges and our judiciary system makes better decisions than the politicians. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security. — John Locke

No individual and no nation need fear at any time to have less money than it needs. Government measures designed to regulate the international movement of money in order to ensure that the community shall have the amount it needs, are just as unnecessary and inappropriate as, say, intervention to ensure a sufficiency or corn or iron or the like. This argument dealt the Mercantilist Theory its death-blow. — Ludwig Von Mises

There is an answer, some day we will know
And you will ask her, why she had to go
We live and die, we laugh and we cry
You must take away the pain
Before you can begin to live again — Chris De Burgh

Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you. — Derek Landy

If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress. — Hannah Arendt

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. — Samuel Johnson

Now that you've met me, you'll never be able to forget me. That's something. — Kristin Hannah

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings. — Peter Zumthor

I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton. — Edith Wharton

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. — Frank Darabont

Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying. — Donald S. Whitney

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine. — Wentworth Miller

First we die, the woman says. "Then our bodies are buried. So we die two deaths." "Then in another world, folded inside the living world, we wait. We wait until everyone who knew us when we were children has died. And then the last of them dies, we finally die our third death. — Anthony Doerr

Getting into television was a total fluke. — Sandra Bullock