Olitical Quotes & Sayings

The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of his father's house, waiting, poised motionless on the frontier of the future, until it is too dark to see. — Gregorio C. Brillantes

Do you have a band-aid?" he asked Roni. Her brow puckered "No why?" "i just scraped my knee falling for you — Suzanne Wright

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form. — Carl Jung

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing. — Alexis Arguello

[P]olitical freedom can easily provide the legal frame for economic slavery, with the underprivileged 'freely' selling themselves into servitude. We are thus brought to demand more than just political democracy: we need democratization of social and economic life. In short, we have to admit that what we first took as the failure fully to realize the noble principle of democratic freedom is a failure inherent to this principle itself. Learning how the distortion of a notion, its incomplete realization, is grounded in the distortion immanent to this notion is a big step in political education. — Slavoj Zizek

I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it. — Victor Mature

Where is the motorcycle?"
"I ditched it. Someone will find it sooner or later and return it to the rental company."
"Not in the U.S."
"We're not in the U.S., in case you haven't noticed. People don't steal lost property, they return it."
"How did you get this car?"
"I stole it. — Anne Stuart

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction. — Henry Adams

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one - the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country. — Edgar Allan Poe

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left. — Barton Seaver

I can't imagine cutting my wrists in Pokheepsie — William Gaddis

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale. — Simone Weil

Something to remember is that covering up a lie almost always makes it more obvious, — Liam Saxon

And my cases end like all stories end: with a sunset, and a kiss, and redemption, and iron shoes, and a sear of light from the shadows, a gun-muzzle flash that illuminates everything as the rain just keeps coming down in the motley, several-colored light of the back end of the world. — Catherynne M Valente

Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person. — Jack Ma

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. — Pam Grier

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things. — Taylor Swift