Policitical Quotes & Sayings

I'm bidin' my time,
'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm. — Ira Gershwin

The Historian and the Man of Science alike may be said to traffic with the dead. Cuvier has imparted flesh and motion and appetites to the defunct Megatherium, whilst the living ears of M.M. Michelet and Renan, of Mr. Carlyle and the Brothers Grimm, have heard the bloodless cries of the vanished and given them voices. I myself, with the aid of the imagination, have worked a little in that line, have ventriloquised, have lent my voice to, and mixt my life with, those past voices and lives whose resuscitation in our own lives as warnings, as examples, as the life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman. — A.S. Byatt

I will never fit in because
I wasn't meant to — Cher Lloyd

A man without enemies is a dishonest man. — Daniel J. Rice

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics — Hany Ghoraba

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since ... — Lisa Kleypas

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration. — Hal Lindsey

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort
Of being strangers, at least to ourselves. — Mark Strand

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution. — Laurence Tribe

That God had a plan, I do not doubt.
But what if His plan was, that we would do better? — Mary Oliver

I Want Something of Yours for Comfort When I Sleep

Awake before the cupboard slams open.
These hours scrape by like snow shovels.
I have dreamed of you again.
Too late, you said, for me, but not for you,
With the folly of a train darkening
In the failing embers of winter.

So I went on, flapping through time like a saw
In the wind, or like a melting fist
Weaned on the hardy light of day,
While the fading of our modesties
Blossomed into a cancer on love's faulty tongue.
And now your hair flames brightly in my kitchen cups. — Noelle Kocot

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. — Anne Frank

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are. — Jason Ritter

We are creators in the process of our own evolution. In this way, we are gods in our own universe. Self evolving gods, learning and expanding and interacting with a perpetual stream of incoming data — Ruben Papian

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. — William Carlos Williams