Mootsie Quotes & Sayings

If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael — Daniel Quinn

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. — Walter Bagehot

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. — Hannah Arendt

Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model ... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

Even if I could live forever," she said to the baby, "I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason."
"But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well. — Amy Tan

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind. — Irving Stone

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it. — Mike Krzyzewski

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was one thing to die. It was another to lose one's soul. To come to a complete end. To exist no longer. — Darynda Jones