Paul C Zanne Quotes & Sayings

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard

Superstition is the poison of the mind. — Joseph Lewis

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in. — George P. Shultz

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. — John Ruskin

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees. — Edmund Burke

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. — Jerome Bruner

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends. — Leland Stanford

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be. — Charlotte Church

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child ... — Kellie Pickler

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality. — Brennan Manning

People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy. — Edwidge Danticat

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically. — David Cameron

He wanted her nails in his back and her tongue in his mouth and her hips rocking under his until he came so hard he saw stars. Then he wanted to sleep with her in his arms afterward. And wake up and eat and make love again. And talk in the dark about things both stupid and serious - Oh, God. He was bonding with her. The bonding thing was happening. — J.R. Ward