Niveausa Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I have just had an idea - after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper. — Dodie Smith

In general, it would be a peculiar type of 'justice' to declare a majority all the better and more just the more overwhelming it is, and to maintain abstractly that ninety-eight people abusing two persons is by far not so unjust as fifty-one people mistreating forty-nine. At this point, pure mathematics becomes simple inhumanity. — Carl Schmitt

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I found the second story that I'd ever written, 20 years ago in Wellington. It was written in the third person, the person most girls use when they want to talk about themselves but don't think anyone will listen. — Chris Kraus

(F)or it was the belief of the duchy that no nation can be governed well unless there is a majority which can impose its will upon a minority. A complete balance of pros and antis could produce nothing but deadlock. — Leonard Wibberley

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will. — Stephen King

She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread. — Frances Hardinge

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. — Steven Weber

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one. — Wei Wu Wei

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side. — Don McLean

You know ... a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. Some of them were trophies for their parents to show the neighbors like ribbons or gold stars. And some of them just wanted to drink in peace. — Stephen Chbosky

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist. — Lennox Lewis

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble. — Winston Churchill

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it. — Conor McGregor