Philadelphians Quotes & Sayings
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There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on. — Patricia Briggs

I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached. — Matthew Rhys

My relationship with God has gotten better and stronger for the simple fact that I understand it a lot better. You know, to me, God's my best friend. — Jake Roberts

He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him, were closed against him. — Leo Tolstoy

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves
rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children. — Caitlin Moran

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. — Agnes Repplier

Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society. — Najib Razak

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me. — Helen Garner

Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down. — Michael Nutter

Contrary to accepted legend, the Philadelphians did not at all mind the presence of the British army in their city; in fact, many of them hoped that Washington would soon be caught and hanged, putting an end to those disruptions and discomforts which had been set in motion by the ambitions of a number of greedy and vain lawyers shrewdly able to use as cover for their private designs Jefferson's high-minded platitudes and cloudy political theorizings. Shortly — Gore Vidal

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess. — Andy Richter

Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East. — Steve Capus

Well, you look like something the cat dragged in," he remarked, immediately laying a hand on the warrior's forehead and closing his eyes in order to assess the damage done to the warrior's abused body.
Gideon did not understand why Elijah found his remark so terribly funny, but the warrior was laughing so hard that his nurse pinched him in the arm to stop him.
"I can't keep pressure with your chest bobbing up and down. Besides, Gideon will never be that funny," she said, giving him a cockeyed look. — Jacquelyn Frank

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life. — Randy Quaid

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. — Khalil Gibran

It takes a genius to whine appealingly. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different. — Jacki Weaver

The true, the universal meaning is that human existence is possible, only possible, in faith. In faith, the individual becomes the universal, ceases to be isolated, becomes meaningful and absolute; hence in faith there is a true ethic. And in faith existence in society becomes meaningful too as existence in true charity. — Peter F. Drucker