Maquiavelo El Quotes & Sayings

My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me. — R.J. Palacio

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. — Sathya Sai Baba

I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure. — Joseph Stiglitz

There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem. — Sheila Johnson

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it. — Ben Aaronovitch

The truth of the matter is, the soul is a monstrous beast. The heart a most unwieldy and a fair weather friend. Why else woud ribs be cages — Anonymous

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. — Otto Weininger

Gwen didn't have to ask about the Fall. It happened to all old people, the Fall. They fell and then everything changed[...]They fell and never quite got up again. — Daniel Handler

The Bill of Life The Second Civil War, also known as "The Heartland War," was a long and bloody conflict fought over a single issue. To end the war, a set of constitutional amendments known as "The Bill of Life" was passed. It satisfied both the Pro-life and the Pro-choice armies. The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. However, between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively "abort" a child . . . . . on the condition that the child's life doesn't "technically" end. The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called "unwinding." Unwinding is now a common, and accepted practice in society. — Neal Shusterman

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made. — Rebecca Mader

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. — Newt Gingrich