Liknadeild Quotes & Sayings

The lie, the perfect lie, about people we know, about the relations we have with them, about our motive for some action, formulated in totally different terms, the lie as to what we are, whom we love, what we feel with regard to people who love us ... that lie is one of the few things in the world that can open windows for us on to what is new and unknown, that can awaken in us sleeping senses for the contemplation of universes that otherwise we should never have known. — Marcel Proust

A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration. — Jay Leno

Moderation assures mediocrity
nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre
simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow. — Dave Draper

No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life. — Flora Thompson

It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering. — Amy Greene

This is history written in lightning. — Woodrow Wilson

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often. — Patricia Marx

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf