Nongovernment Quotes & Sayings

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party ... — Common

You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now. — Ernest Holmes

We are nothing but space dust, trying to find its way back to the stars. — David Jones

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club. — Carine Roitfeld

Our sinful nature breeds envy, self-sufficiency, entitlement, and transgression. Envy, self-sufficiency, entitlement, and transgression breed isolation. Isolation breeds life problems (emotional, behavioral, rela-tional). — Henry Cloud

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. — George Orwell

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent. — Sonam Kapoor

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history — Edward Gibbon

You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups. — Joy Williams

What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skuduggery said.

Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."

"Or make brand-new ones. — Derek Landy

Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world. — Henry David Thoreau

A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence
often the sole evidence offered
of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with problems "obviously" required state intervention. Government is depicted as acting not in response to its own political incentives and constraints but because it is compelled to do so by concern for the public interest: it "cannot keep its hands off" when so "much is at stake," when emergency "compels" it to supersede other decision making processes. Such a tableau simple ignores the possibility that there are political incentives for the production and distribution of "emergencies" to justify expansions of power as well as to use episodic emergencies as a reason for creating enduring government institutions. — Thomas Sowell

that Rob, who had turned seven two months — Jeff Hobbs

I wrote long reviews of all four books if you want to take a look. — Manny Rayner

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character. — Mia Wasikowska

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything. — Edie Brickell