Pismaniye Quotes & Sayings

I didn't like the way the game was being played. — Mario Lemieux

No one can deny, in face of the evidence, that it is easy, given military power, to produce a population of fanatical lunatics. It would be equally easy to produce a population of sane and reasonable people, but many governments do not wish to do so, since such people would fail to admire the politicians who are at the head of these governments. — Christopher Hitchens

It doesn't take much to make me happy. — Lexa Doig

Marriage, after all, was the known, not the unknown: the dull dinner party, not the madcap masquerade. It was a set of issues and events that audiences knew all too well offscreen. Unlike the wide-open frontier of the western, offering freedom and adventure, or the lyrical musical, with its fantasy of release through singing and dancing, or the woman's film, with its placing of a marginalized social figure (the woman) at the center of the universe, or the gangster movie, with its violent excitement and obvious sexual freedom, the marriage film had to reflect what moviegoers already had experienced: marriage, in all its boredom and daily responsibilities. — Jeanine Basinger

Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality. — Heisenberg

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. — Isaac Newton

But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth. — James D. Horton

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever! — Ambrose Bierce

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness
that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham

The best novels capture the times in which the writer lives, which accounts for the current, if contrasting taste for lost utopias and dystopian nightmares peopled by vampires and wolves. — Chloe Thurlow