Piskwer Quotes & Sayings

I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist. — Edmund White

The Most Dangerous Book In America — Michael Mayhem

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense. You will be able to smile at how you overcome the tears of pain. — Stephen Richards

Dream all you will, dare all you can, and do all you must. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest! — Diana Gabaldon

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap. — George Sampson

Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the constitution's various parts were so mutually interdependent that reform within the rules was next to impossible. As a result, radicals found that they had little choice other than to set themselves beyond and against the law. This inflexibility had disastrous consequences as it became increasingly clear that the Roman state was incapable of responding adequately to the challenges it faced. Political debate became polarized into bitter conflicts, with radical outsiders trying to press change on conservative insiders who, in the teeth of all the evidence, believed that all was for the best under the best of all possible constitutions (16). — Anthony Everitt

it was very hard to enjoy the scenery while simultaneously being terrified of colliding with it. — Caimh McDonnell

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. — Peter Mandelson

Commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test. — Bob Costas

More relevantly, the revelation that Frank is Frances and that she became he because of a homegrown science experiment connects us to the practice, widespread in the Culture, of voluntary sex change. The difference in circumstances - in the Culture, the change is always completely successful, entirely reversible, and bioengineered inside the individual from birth - lies at the heart of Banks' conviction that the ability to switch between genders at will is essential to the creation of a more just society - once one has lived as both man and woman, misogyny becomes substantially more difficult to embrace. — Simone Caroti

Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart. — Goodale Sisters

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in. — Nathaniel Hawthorne