Patrika News Quotes & Sayings

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either. — Ronald Reagan

History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism. — Andrew J. Bacevich

She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have — Jane Austen

The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance ... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it ... — Ernest Renan

How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed. — Terry Eastland

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. — Wallace Stevens

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown. — Nickolas Ashford

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. — H.L. Mencken

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft. — Ruby Rose

Simplifying your life is meant to make things better, not worse. It's about choices - about saying no to the things in your life that aren't the best so that you are free and available to say yes to those things you truly want. — Tsh Oxenreider

I thought of the scene while writing scenes with Rebecca [Hall] and wrote it like an opening montage of showing where someone works. If you see a film about a car mechanic, you'd show the place they work and what they do. So, that's what I set out to do with Rebecca's character. I thought it probably wouldn't even make it into film but I ended up liking it. — Nicole Holofcener

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' — Herman Melville

Pain or damage don't end the world ... — Al Swearengen

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry. — Robert Frost