Nullum Gratuitum Quotes & Sayings

Most serious confrontations in life are not political, they are existential. One can agree with someone's political stance but disagree in a fundamental way with how they came to that position. It is a question of attitude, of moral configuration. My husband and I had plenty of grievances, but it all boiled down to a fundamental difference in the way we perceived life, the context within which we defined ourselves and our world. For that, there was no reconciliation or resolution, there was only separation or surrender. — Azar Nafisi

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right. — Isabel Briggs Myers

My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend to
repeat them. — Lisa Kleypas

I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food. — Kal Penn

Guillaume Belibaste, the last Cathar recorded to have burned at the stake in 1321, is said to have prophesied that "at the end of seven hundred years the laurel would again turn green,"114 implying that the principles of "the true Christianity" would return to the world's attention. — Marnia Robinson

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world. — Paul Lansky

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them. — A.D. Posey

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.
[The human element] — W. Somerset Maugham

Like most people confined to an institution, she had been divested of a past life. — Siri Hustvedt

Everyone falls sometimes, son, even me, but the trick is to get right back up. They'll always target the ones who appear vulnerable, so you need to be strong. Fake it until you make it. — J.M. Darhower

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them. — Stewart Brand

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. — Mitch Albom

A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover. — John Connolly

Girl, you are wiser than your years."
"Actually, Randall, I'm just older than I look. — Evan Geller

I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind ... So don't talk of our seperation again ... — Emily Bronte