Popujt E Quotes & Sayings

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans. — Rick Yancey

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse. — Dorothy Dunnett

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him. — Theodore Roosevelt

When girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want. — Anna Godbersen

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer

Nothing moves in a straight line — R. Gregory Lande

He was one of that numerous and diverse legion of vulgarians, feeble miscreates, half-taught petty tyrants who make a point of instantly latching on to the most fashionable current idea, only to vulgarize it at once, to make an instant caricature of everything they themselves serve, sometimes quite sincerely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the first place, good people are rarely suspicious; they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic conclusion as the correct one, and let matters rest there. Then, too, the normal are inclined to view the multiple killer as the as the one who's as monstrous in appearance as he is in mind, which is about as far from the truth as one could well get. He paused and then said that these monsters of real life usually looked and behaved in a more normal manner than their actually normal brothers and sisters: they presented a more convincing picture of virtue than virtue presented of itself - just as the wax rosebud or the plastic peach seemed more perfect to the eye, more what the mind thought a rosebud or a peach should be than the imperfect original from which it had been modeled. — William March

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces. — August Strindberg

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth. — William, Saroyan