Poemoir Quotes & Sayings

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. — Robert A. Heinlein

Principal's no different from the rest - he orders and so he is. — Joshua Cohen

If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Never use pages for personal brand! — Robert Scoble

Winning is a matter of endurance. As long as you don't quit, you will win! — E.V. Frapiere

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose? — Ani DiFranco

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up. — Thomas Carlyle

I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably on my side in this affair. — Barbara Honigmann

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. — George Chapman

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak. — Robin Trower

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. — Amy Carmichael

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be. — Joshua Harris

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea. — Aristotle.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient. — Bruce Lee

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity. — Peter Dinklage

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think? — Steven Wright