Nemesia Strumosa Quotes & Sayings

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? — Forrest Carr

I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag. — Cillian Murphy

If cunnilingus was a martial art, I'd wear my black belt with pride. — Jodi Knight

Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. — Ben Aaronovitch

I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?' — Felicity Huffman

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist. — Levon Helm

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it. — Mackenzie Davis

We are surrounded by so many books, so many words, so many thoughts ... and not a single one can help us. I think, What's the point of all magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. — David Levithan

But if I've learned anything, it is that goodness prevails, not in the absence of reasons to despair, but in spite of them. If we wait for clean heroes and clear choices and evidence on our side to act, we will wait forever, and my radio conversations teach me that people who bring light into the world wrench it out of darkness, and contend openly with darkness all of their days. [ ... ] They were flawed human beings, who wrestled with demons in themselves as in the world outside. For me, their goodness is more interesting, more genuinely inspiring because of that reality. The spiritual geniuses of the ages and of the everyday simply don't let despair have the last word, nor do they close their eyes to its pictures or deny the enormity of its facts. They say, "Yes, and ... ," and they wake up the next day, and the day after that, to live accordingly. — Krista Tippett

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined. — Andre Dubus

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. — Alfred Hershey

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped. — William Lawrence Bragg

In the beginning, love is mostly about lying to each other. It's like that in the end, too. — Brian K. Vaughan

I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. — Nanao Sakaki