Poors Island Quotes & Sayings

Even though the means of production are more available than ever, I think the true expertise is as rare as ever. — Khoi Vinh

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. — Ray Davies

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity. — D.H. Lawrence

It's the things you do that you don't have to do that always determine the difference when it is too late to do anything about it. — Timothy Michael McDougall

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. — Cornelia Funke

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. — Malcolm Gladwell

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you. — Caitlin Doughty

I didn't write my book, 'I Don't Care About Your Band,' in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules they need to feel terrible about not abiding. I wrote my book to make the women who read it feel good about themselves, and a little more entitled to be treated well by the guys they go out with. — Julie Klausner

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear. — Douglas Kennedy

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life. — Chris Colfer

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist. — Laurel Nakadate

I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families. — Joyce Banda

He kissed me gently. 'Lieutenant Malachi Sokol, reporting for duty, Captain.'
'What?'
'I've been assigned to your field unit,' he whispered as he nuzzled my neck. Oh, man. Heaven. Help. Me. 'I'm afraid I'm already being shockingly insubordinate. — Sarah Fine

It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives. — Isak Dinesen