Peter Dobson Quotes & Sayings

Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated
but not in politics ... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. — B.F. Skinner

Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place. — Chris Matakas

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation ... — James Madison

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off. — Sarah Addison Allen

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. — Steven Soderbergh

Why do they put cows over the gates, sir?"
"For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe. — Bernard Cornwell

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by. — Seneca The Younger

I JUST GOT THE CRAP BEAT OUTTA ME!!! — John Cena

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents. — Novak Djokovic

Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November. — Larry McMurtry