Percorrere Quotes & Sayings

By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government's ability to solve serious problems, then it has concrete and potentially catastrophic consequences for people's lives. I — Cass R. Sunstein

Work gets done if you simply do it. — Elizabeth Strout

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon. — Mahatma Gandhi

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. — William Cowper

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. — Robert Smith

I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it's simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life. It's a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma. — Adam Duritz

I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.
The truth, however, is painful.
It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness. — Markus Zusak

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Roar'd for the handkerchief that caus'd his pain. But see how oft ambitious aims are cross'd, And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost! The Lock, obtain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: 110 With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heav'n decrees! with heav'n who can contest? — Alexander Pope

But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself
he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film. — Charles Roven

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy, — H.R. Giger