Ostrvo Pag Quotes & Sayings

I can no longer take war or promotion or big income or a large house seriously. I reject empire and Vietnam and placing a man on the moon. I deny time payments and looking like the girl next door and church weddings and a great deal more. If you want to blame such rejection on grass, you can do so. I charge it to awakening. — James A. Michener

Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight. — Dov Davidoff

Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people ... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people. — Noam Chomsky

He'd been unhappy, restless, irritable since leaving Surrey. He'd lived on memories of her. Her absence slowly strangled him. The instant he took Antonia in his arms, he breathed again. — Anna Campbell

Strangers are an endangered species ... — Adrienne Rich

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is. — James Thurber

Shall a man have nothing of his own; -- no sorrow in his heart, no care in his family, no thought in his breast so private and special to him, but that, if he happen to be a clergyman, the bishop may touch it with his thumb?'
I am not the bishop's thumb,' said Mr. Thumble — Anthony Trollope

I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. — George Santayana

One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down. — John Scalzi

Who loves me will love my dog also. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. — Lew Wallace

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. — Andre Malraux