Onorevole Buonanno Quotes & Sayings

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'. — George Orwell

Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving. — Daphne Oz

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars. — Conan O'Brien

It's shocking the things we call love. — Deb Caletti

You mortals baffle me. — Steven Erikson

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference. — Lysa TerKeurst

That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down ... I still believe it was. — Sophie Kinsella

Guillermo taps his foot impatiently. Oscar winks at me, sending my stomach on an elevator ride. "To be continued," he says. — Jandy Nelson