Peremptorily Def Quotes & Sayings

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees. — James Cook

Later, Achilles pressed close for a final, drowsy whisper. 'If you have to go, you know I will go with you.' We slept. — Madeline Miller

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics. — Jennifer Granholm

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties. — Robert Gottlieb

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you. — Steven Erikson

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis Of Assisi

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom. — John Bright

Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of education must be to stimulate and unleash the wisdom that lies dormant in the lives of all young people. This is not a forced process, like pressing something into a preformed mold, but rather drawing out the potential which exists within. — Daisaku Ikeda

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. — Tom Hayden

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries. — Edmund Phelps