Peter Porte Quotes & Sayings

Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans. — Ishmael Reed

Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100. — Ray Kurzweil

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. — Helen Keller

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. — Julia Ward Howe

It is always difficult, the transition from noisy refusal to humble acceptance. — Zoe Heller

I just feel that when all is said and done, I am not insane. — Steven Morrissey

The storm doesn't follow you; you are the storm. Nothing can stand in your way. — Mark Tufo

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses. — Elijah Muhammad

Every fiber of my being knows he's a bad person but my whole body doesn't give a shit. — Colleen Hoover

In the silence, the boy understood that the desert, the wind, and the sun were also trying to understand the signs written by the hand, and were seeking to follow their paths, and to understand what had been written on a single emerald. He saw that omens were scattered throughout the earth and in space, and that there was no reason or significance attached to their appearance; he could see that not the deserts, nor the winds, nor the sun, nor people knew why they had been created. But that the hand had a reason for all of this, and that only the hand could perform miracles, or transform the sea into a desert . . . or a man into the wind. — Paulo Coelho

Taverns were not the safest place to discuss politics or religion. Everybody was armed or drunk, usually both, and proprietors sensibly discouraged heated discussions. Coffeehouses, on the other hand, encouraged political debate, which was precisely why King Charles II banned them in 1675 9 (he withdrew the ban in eleven days)... Intelligent people discussing interesting things in an intelligible manner. — Stewart Lee Allen

Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going? — Paul Gauguin

One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself. — L. Frank Baum