Pomrnur Quotes & Sayings

There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom. — Gordon Dahlquist

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. — John Adams

Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors its worst members. — James O'Toole

I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace ... — Pamela Des Barres

When a puppy takes fifty catnaps in the course of the day, he cannot always be expected to sleep the night through. — Albert Payson Terhune

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers. — Gore Vidal

If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue ... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more ... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.' — Stephenie Meyer

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue. — Stephen Pagliuca

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. — Roger Kahn

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. — James Jones

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. — Sophie Swetchine

The place was stifling. Suddenly it occurred to her that a trace of him still lurked in her, minute and spectral, that effluvial stain that would be her stigmata forever. It was then that she resolved to ask for an appointment to see him, as things had to be settled between them. — Edna O'Brien