Piculina Quotes & Sayings

You were made to be kissed, often and well. — George R R Martin

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats. — Clay Shirky

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow. — Karl Marlantes

When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after dark and you don't pick your fellow's pockets to buy classical symphonies or fishing tackle, but if it's to get stinking drunk and forget you do. — Ayn Rand

There is a crime commited by the society against the individual,a crime that is commited afresh each day — Victor Hugo

You can make an oyster surrender its pearl," Clara says. "All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife. — John Langan

The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and the saint. I am the child and the adult. I am the man who lived 100000 years ago and the man who will live 100000 years from now. — Erich Fromm

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people. — Joko Widodo

To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant ... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. — Derek Landy