Martinete Quotes & Sayings

He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding. — J.M. Barrie

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another. — Thomas More

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives, — Philip Larkin

To the Bullock Roseroot
What's the thought you think
all your life long?
It must be a great one,
a solemn one, to make you gaze
through the world at it,
all your life long.
When you have to look aside from it
your eyes roll, you bellow
in anger, anxious
to return to it, steadily
to gaze at it, think it
all your life long. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out. — Samuel Moyn

The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed. — Peter Boettke

We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level. — Kailash Satyarthi

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control. — Moses Finley

If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else. — Helen Gurley Brown

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. — Horace

Not that I am cheering for him or anything, but if he can't see how amazing you are, he's an idiot.
-Aspen — Kiera Cass