Matzoo Quotes & Sayings

[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state. — Jacques Barzun

I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don't like the fact that I'm putting out some positive alternatives. What's their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader? — Kevin Rudd

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck

The truth was, she was becoming more and more uncomfortably conscious not only that the things she said, and a good many of the things she thought, had been taken down off a rack and put on, but that what she really felt was something else again. — Doris Lessing

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one. — Roxane Gay

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. — Karl Kraus

The purse strings tie us to our kind. — Walter Bagehot

The world as it appears to us through our mind and senses is seen as an illusion (maya). That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, but that it doesn't represent the Truth, the Real. — Hridaya Yoga

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. — Malcolm X

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence. — Frederick Lenz

Celebration is the sparkle in the eye of the one who glows. It is the song that plays in the house of freedom. Celebration is the dance of life, it's the one dancing to the drumbeat of the heart, it's your birthday cake, it's you blowing out the trick candles, it's you delighting in the fire of life. — Tehya Sky

These too are of a burning color
not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies. — John Steinbeck

This couldn't be ... did women really ... ? She must be wearing it wrong, because good God in heaven! It was horrible! Was the little string supposed to ... She took it off, went to her laptop and Google searched "how to wear a thong." No, she hadn't put it on wrong. She tried again. Ow. Fantastic. This was just a twenty-five dollar version of a severe wedgie. She picked up her phone and called Allison. "Hey, Allison, I - " "You'll get used to it," Allison said — Kristan Higgins

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions. — Richard Ernst

Ladies and gentlemen." He [Jabba] sighed. "Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders ... the worm. — Dan Brown