Parthenis Riviera Quotes & Sayings

The irony of the present day is, that, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubt offenders deserve their rights to be protected, but in cases of serious offenses such as 'rape' where the offence is proved beyond all reasonable doubt against the offender and where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country and prefers to cross the precincts of the law, the question of a lighter punishment vis-a vis the gravity of the offence is a big question. — Henrietta Newton Martin

Donna say no. If you are, do it now and leave me alone. I can't take this, Maggie. You're killing me by small degrees. — Melissa Schroeder

So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek. — Patrick Stewart

If I was a supervillain then I guess I'd want what all supervillains want, which is world domination. I wouldn't want anything less than all the other supervillains. — Joseph Bruce

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best. — Plato

The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women. — Sue Monk Kidd

Near the end of the story, at the police station, Murin diagnoses Ordynov's illness as the sad result of "too much book learning, — Robert Mann

She smiled and feigned enthusiasm, although she cared little for the game. Sometimes that's what you did for the people you loved. — Julie Klassen

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. — Penelope Lively

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. — Jay Asher

Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mind
who else is doing anything? — Thomas Pynchon

You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul. — Lacey Mosley