Parliamentarians Vote Quotes & Sayings

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, Where are all my friends? — Kim Stanley Robinson

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. — Khalil Gibran

Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness. — Joseph Conrad

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time — Jude Morgan

Are you fangalicious? -Jess, a random blogger
I could never be as fangalicious as you'd want me to be.-Fang — James Patterson

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy. — Plato

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out. — Jill Mansell

In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him. — Luisa Valenzuela

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one. — Rick Warren

The most fundamental problem is not that we don't have a system to run but those with knowledge are cynically manipulating the system for petty personal desires. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall. — Matthew Arnold

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead? ... It would be the ultimate breach of privacy. — Carl Sagan

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on. — Joe E. Lewis

Friendship of the unshakeable kind. Friendship you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come back stronger than before. — Maggie Stiefvater