Pingelig Quotes & Sayings

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement. — R. H. Tawney

Horne Fisher had in him something of the aristocrat, which is very near to the anarchist. It was characteristic of him that he turned into this dark and irregular entry as casually as into his own front door, merely thinking that it would be a short cut to the house. He made his way through the dim wood for some distance and with some difficulty, until there began to shine through the trees a level light, in lines of silver, which he did not at first understand. The next moment he had come out into the daylight at the top of a steep bank, at the bottom of which a path ran round the rim of a large ornamental lake. — G.K. Chesterton

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist? — C.S. Lewis

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%. — Bill Gates

So,what do they call you if they don't know your name?"
There's a brief pause before he answers.
"The Wrath of God. — Susan Ee

I have been waiting for you for so long."
I pointed to the car. "We are searching for Trachimbrod."
"Oh," she said and she released a river of tears. "You are here. I am it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

the only true saviours are german — Eckart Tolle

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers. — Chaka Khan

From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. — Saul Alinsky

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context. — Woody Allen

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language. — William Golding

Life can be hard at times. People can be hard on each other. Being hard on yourself is completely unnecessary. — Ron Baratono

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research. — Aleksandra Mir

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work. — G.W. Bailey

I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood's eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs. — Coco Austin