Pensia Privata Quotes & Sayings

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. — Ayn Rand

Considering these limitations, it is quite astonishing how irreligious the Founders actually were. You might not easily guess, for example, who was the author of the following words: Oh! Lord! Do you think that a Protestant Popedom is annihilated in America? Do you recollect, or have you ever attended to the ecclesiastical Strifes in Maryland Pensilvania [sic], New York, and every part of New England? What a mercy it is that these People cannot whip and crop, and pillory and roast, as yet in the U.S.! If they could they would ... . There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation. That was John Adams, in relatively mild form. — Christopher Hitchens

The window is closing. — Barack Obama

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse. — Leo Tolstoy

We had been too warm, too alive. Death couldn't follow something like that. — Richelle Mead

And lash the vice and follies of the age. — Susanna Centlivre

Looks like you suck at volleyball just as much as you do at making late night phone calls. — E.J. Squires

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. — Alexandre Dumas

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H.L. Mencken

Love is something you must accept in order to have, Naomi. — Nakia R. Laushaul

Does it hurt?" I asked. "No. Just." He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, "I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now ... I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight. — John Green