Noumena Kant Quotes & Sayings

Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening. — Donald G. Firesmith

The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture. — Joe Biden

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Schadenfreude is as old as the Scriptures. Believe me, when the girls in the Red Sea bowling league heard that Lot's wife had morphed into a pillar of salt, the deer-lick jokes flew. — Dennis Miller

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it. — Bruce Willis

...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times? — E.L. Doctorow

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor. — Kit Harington

You can't find your voice if you don't use it. — Austin Kleon

His smile wavers. I've been looking at him too long. 'Are you OK?' he says.
I nod, take a deep breath.
Then I lean over and kiss him. — Emma Pass

Tess made a swift turn, and continued down the sidewalk. Her conduct was not one that mirrored that of Tess Cummings, the outgoing, well composed sophisticated school teacher with the professional comportment, but rather that of Tess Cummings, the traumatized victim undergoing agonizations from the aftereffects of a brutal attack. — Calvin W. Allison

People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example. — Bryant McGill

How could such a thing have happened? Everything that seemed so important back then - Naoko, and the self I was then, and the world I had then: where could they have all gone? It's true, I can't even bring back Naoko's face - not right away, at least. — Haruki Murakami

We would have no king, and our kingdom would remain disorganized. — Karpov Kinrade

I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American. — Steve Hockensmith

Christ to Satan, we are cut from the same cloth, every one of us. And we have the choice to be in eternity anything we wish. Man or woman. Genius or idiot, and all between. Physical beauty means nothing. God sees the heart. Wealth is only a test of what we would do with it. It is a loan from God, as are our talents, a way to prove whether we will use them well or ill. The judgment is awaiting us. — Anne Perry