Lysistrata Characters Quotes & Sayings

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. — Anderson Cooper

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny ..Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death. — Charles De Gaulle

For me, coming to work and laughing is so much more preferable than coming to work and having to cry over a corpse or something. That's a drag. — Busy Philipps

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages. — Thomas Sowell

It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving. — Andy Weir

Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew. — Stella Benson

Life in the Islamic Republic was as capricious as the month of April, when short periods of sunshine will suddenly give way to showers and storms. — Azar Nafisi

Your dogs do not belong in restaurants even if they are supercute. I swear to God, the number of tiny dogs I've seen in inappropriate places is at least ten times higher than the number of times I've gotten laid in my life. And, newsflash: Only service animals are allowed in restaurants. That's actually a public health concern. I don't get why you're allowed to decide you're completely above the law simply because you found a purse to fit your dog into. 3. — Linda Tirado

She'd never forgotten their last night in Seoul, or above it in fact, surveying the city lights from atop Namsan Mountain. — Giacomo Lee

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are? — Rachel Kushner

Here I end (thank God) the first and dullest business of this book - the rough review of recent thought. — G.K. Chesterton

She swung like a pendulum, ticking away the seconds until she would be dead. — Bernice L. McFadden

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences. — Tim Armstrong

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. — Orson Welles