Nostrilla Quotes & Sayings

In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees only that the majority will not be despotically ruled. — B.F. Skinner

Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ. — Victor Hugo

I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Life is full of contrasts. — Sunday Adelaja

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward. — Jonah Peretti

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic ... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards ... he hardly said two words to me all day. — Jane Badler

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really
or I try to be
like the glue of the team. — Carmelo Anthony

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying. — Leonardo DiCaprio

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens

Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music and arts programs. They increase the ability of young people to do math. They increase the ability of young people to read. And most important of all, they're a lot of fun. — William J. Clinton

Sometimes food is more than food — Jo Beverley

Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that. — Ivan Misner

We will stay. Our son will need friends. You will need the healer. And I," he says, grazing his thumb over my mouth. "Will always need you. A male cannot exist apart from its heart. — Ruby Dixon

Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev's first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian, I adjudged: well-made, and studiously conversational, and coming close, here and there, to the images that really hurt and connect. — Martin Amis

It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something - anything - for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know. — Francine Prose