Perjuring Himself Quotes & Sayings

Our lives are Mobius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring. — Joyce Carol Oates

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most. — Henry Hazlitt

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation. — Tacitus

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency. — Julian Assange

Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people. — Joycelyn Elders

Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression."
Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?"
"Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation. — Georgette Heyer

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions. — Raymond Smullyan

Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification. — Squidward Tentacles

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. — Jacqueline Novogratz

It is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that person's lover. There would be a much likelier chance of his doing it if he were told not to love. If the marriage ceremony consisted in an oath and signed contract between the parties to cease loving from that day forward, in consideration of personal possession being given, and to avoid each other's society as much as possible in public, there would be more loving couples than there are now. Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets! There'd be little cooling then. — Thomas Hardy

I've always been a very goal-driven person. — Amanda Crew