Perpetuel Quotes & Sayings

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. — Adnan Pachachi

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible. — Jacqueline Novogratz

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life — Haile Selassie

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. — Seamus Heaney

You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant. — Dave Chappelle

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience. — Winston Churchill

I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet. — Nicolle Wallace

It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this. — Robert Carlyle

If someone asks me, "Why do you write?" I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, "Why do you write the way you do?" I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world - every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste. — William H Gass

Behavior shapes emotions. — A. J. Jacobs

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history. — Pope Benedict XVI

Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage. — Kevin Shields