Namerica Quotes & Sayings

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor. — Muhammad Yunus

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day. — Lauren Morrill

I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards. — Paul O'Grady

I found the book, Qur'an,] in spite of "the contradictions, the absurdities, the anachronisms", "rhapsody, without connection, without order, and without art. — Voltaire

The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. — Thomas Huxley

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off. — Charles Dickens

Of course," said Mik, without missing a beat. "However, as cool a word as samurai is, I don't think it's what we really mean. We just want to be able to kick ass, right?" "Well, definitely don't phrase it that way. We'd probably just become highly skilled at kicking people in the ass. Don't turn your back on them," she intoned. "They never miss. — Laini Taylor

She walked among the stars,
The princess of the heavens,
Looking for the one who caught her crystal tears
That spilled out from liquid ice blue eyes-
Rolling down pale cheeks-
Then sealed up tenderly ...
In pearl alabaster jars ... — Kallista Pendragon

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage. — Robert Atkins

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. — Alexander Pope

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. — Vincente Minnelli

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India. — Aravind Adiga