P790 Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty. — John Adams

But he lacked the guts or the wisdom, or maybe just the talent, to indicate somehow that time was liquid, that one moment was no more important than any other, and that all moments quickly run away. — Kurt Vonnegut

I am not in favor of killing - that for me is the line not to be crossed. — Margarethe Von Trotta

So successfully have we disguised from ourselves the intensity of our own feelings, the sensibility of our own hearts, that plays in the tragic tradition have begun to seem untrue. For a couple of hours we may surrender ourselves to a world of fiercely illuminated values in conflict, but when the stage is covered and the auditorium lighted, almost immediately there is a recoil of disbelief. "Well, well!" we say as we shuffle back up the aisle, while the play dwindles behind us with the sudden perspective of an early Chirico painting. By the time we have arrived at Sardi's, if not as soon as we pass beneath the marquee, we have convinced ourselves once more that life has as little resemblance to the curiously stirring and meaningful occurrences on the stage as a jingle has to an elegy of Rilke. — Tennessee Williams

At twenty years old, Michael had vague plans to make changes in his life, but turning blue whilst stood in a walk-in bath in an old people's home wasn't one of them. Usually boys of his age might consider changes along the lines of smoking less grass at home, at college or at work, to be a good idea. Or maybe spending less time on that solitary pursuit common to men of his age across the globe. Enjoyable though he found it, he was going to cut back on the procrastination, but that was going to have to wait. — Dylan Perry

As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba. — Temple Fielding

I was so taken by HIM, but he was not Count Vronsky or Rhett Buttler. But in my little world he was as dashing and handsome. I knew it was a doomed affair. I knew it instinctively. — Cecilia Scott

There are bits of me in all my characters. — Chris Lilley

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master. — Gretchen Rubin

I don't think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate. — Elizabeth Scott

Don't give away what you can't afford to lose. — A Meredith Walters

Runners are poor walkers. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We're a rough people, born of oak, as they say, here in the western land; tempers run high, weapons are always at hand. — Ursula K. Le Guin