Partholonians Quotes & Sayings

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this. — Jamaica Kincaid

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I have to protect you Kisa-Anna. I believe I was made to protect you. — Tillie Cole

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. — Robert Trout

We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers. — Richard M. Nixon

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession. — Albert Camus

Better that you enslave us, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away. — Jeremy Irons

Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain. — Nikki Gemmell

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts. — Jennifer Damiano

I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive? — Eminem

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth. — Camron Wright

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be. — John Donne

I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself ... — Bill Murray

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong, — John Hiatt