Lige Quotes & Sayings

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. — Henry Timrod

The ones with the most generous social provisions are the northern European countries: Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. These are export-oriented, surplus economies with sound fiscal balances and strong social safety nets. The claim that Europe's fiscal mess is the result of overly generous social welfare systems simply cannot be substantiated. — Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream. — Rachel Kushner

My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) — Adrian McKinty

'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.' — Geoffrey Chaucer

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious. — John Lydon

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. — Edward Steichen

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth. — Jean Anouilh

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured. — Bertolt Brecht

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. — Edsger Dijkstra

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.

I am a road man for the lords of karma. — Hunter S. Thompson