Niue Quotes & Sayings

How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real. — Ravi Zacharias

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. — Nicholson Baker

Lexington is not big enough to have clubs with long lines, but at least they don't have velvet ropes. — Lynn S. Hightower

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour. — Emma Donoghue

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry ... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry
an aberration which is happily almost impossible
it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. — Auguste Comte

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them. — Laura Marling

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life. — Chuck Pagano

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows. — Fritz Sauckel

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

Any statement or claim that contradicts reason and valid experience cannot be upheld. Therefore, as Buddhists, we must discard any tenet that may contradict reason and valid experience. — Dalai Lama XIV

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. — Karl Marx

The hawk with talent hides its talons. — Barry Eisler

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. — Lysander Spooner