Poorters Quotes & Sayings

I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this. — C. D. Broad

No one can take the power within you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gorse came back. — Erin Hunter

It isn't possible to smile too much, odd one."
"Did you ever see the Joker in Batman? — Dean Koontz

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I find these shows very touching sometimes. — Robert Stack

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body? — Idries Shah

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure. — George Mason

I could shoot you in the foot."
"Please do. At least then I wouldn't have to endure this sock humiliation any longer. — Lisa Kessler

I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all. — Paul Fry

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. — Ethan Zuckerman

There were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers. — Danielle Steel

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. — Zbigniew Brzezinski