Pietiek Lv Quotes & Sayings

People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court. — Russ Feingold

Hate is a place where a man who can't stand sadness goes. — Kentaro Miura

It hurts to love someone this much. I feel each place where our minds meet, and each little place were they don't, until we talk things over and line up again ... I've never had anything like this with anyone else. Now I'm never fully happy anymore unless you're with me. — Caragh M. O'Brien

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune — William Faulkner

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past. — Brad Henry

I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher

There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she's no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won't remember the way she set down the spoon and the sound it made on slate, the frock she wore today, the touch of her sandal's thong between her toes, the summer's warmth, the white noise of the city beyond the house walls, a short burst of birdsong by a closed window. All gone, already. — Ian McEwan

It was unsettling. For a moment he believed she could see straight through his brain. Not that there was much to see. Still, he doubted she'd feel more amiably toward him if, for instance, she could discern how vast an amount of mental space his fantasies of seduction occupied, compared to the cramped corner devoted to the problem of murdered guides and corrupt police. — Loretta Chase

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored. — Mahatma Gandhi

...it occurred to me that I was stuck somewhere in between, with neither the blind confidence of youth that everything would turn out as imagined nor the experience that builds up as years pass that i wouldn't matter if it didn't. — Neve Maslakovic

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. — Winston Churchill