Leissa Quotes & Sayings

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it. — Emmeline Pankhurst

You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They're the rocks thrown into the still pond. — Jon Ronson

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy. — James Mattis

The government [...] cannot be anything other than the organization of a minority. It is the aim of this minority to impose upon the rest of society a 'legal order', which is the outcome of the exigencies of dominion and of the exploitation of the mass of helots effected by the ruling minority, and can never be truly representative of the majority. — Robert Michels

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books. — Wilbur Smith

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. — Mark Twain

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing. — Oriah Dreamer

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off. — Eddie Marsan

I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or
the color work in a ten-cent magazine. — O. Henry

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses. — Jason Behr