Matchstick Carrots Quotes & Sayings

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong. — Lewis H. Lapham

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. — Tipper Gore

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. — Barack Obama

My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down. — Anonymous

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard. — Gayle Forman

But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that made life semilife and men semimen. He wished to put his life on one of a pair of scales and death on the other. He wished each of his acts, indeed each day, each hour, each second of his life to be measured against the supreme criterion, which is death. That was why he wanted to march at the head of the column, to walk on a tightrope over an abyss, to have a halo of bullets around his head and thus to grow in everyone's eyes and become unlimited as death is unlimited ... — Milan Kundera

You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns. — Victor Hugo

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds. — Margaret Deland

Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself. — Emil Cioran

My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark — Alexandra Bracken

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. — John Kenneth Galbraith

For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long. — Betsy Brandt

The members of the circle ... [were] performing a peculiar caper based on Mrs. Shawcross's fancy of what a Saxon dance might have seemed like. ("Did Saxons dance?" Pamela asked. "You never think of them dancing.") — Kate Atkinson

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison. — Samuel Hopkins Adams