Peggy Blomquist Quotes & Sayings

If a better politics were in the direct and obvious interest of the old, wealthy and powerful, it would already exist. — Danny Dorling

I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz and soul music like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and The Rat Pack and swing music. — Ella Henderson

If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy. — Madame De La Fayette

Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity. — Johannes Voet

Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh... — Alex Scarrow

I have a rare form of body dysmorphia in which I absolutely can't stand how good I look. — Anthony Jeselnik

She had forgotten his faults as we forget
the sorrows of our departed childhood. — George Eliot

A train journey is travel; everything else - planes especially - is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands. - GRB — Paul Theroux

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made. — F. Sionil Jose

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why. — Thomas L. Dumm

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. — Ruth Benedict

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that. — Amy Winehouse

You're my best friend; I notice when your hands shake. I notice when your big mouth goes quiet! — S.R. Crawford