Populus Group Quotes & Sayings

There were those who asserted that sons always became, to some degree or other, disguised variants of their fathers, that the experience of breaking out was never more than an illusion; you returned; the gravity of blood was not only stronger than your willpower, it was your willpower. — Jo Nesbo

People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully. — Alexander McCall Smith

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human. — Pedro Arrupe

Till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion. — Benjamin Franklin

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him. — Jane Addams

But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness. — Saul Bellow

It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there — Naomi Novik

The march is a way to get in celebration mode. — Charles Richards

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon. — Heber J. Grant

Marriage is the strangest thing. Almost without realizing it, I feel as if our lives and our hearts became knitted together. — Sylvain Reynard

Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union. — Lorna Jane Cook

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best. — Plato

Then all of a sudden, his hazel eyes penetrated me in a way that succeeded in melting away my anger. My heartbeat quickened and my adrenaline pumped but in a different way than it had been a few minutes earlier. Suddenly it was like I forgot how to form words. I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. — Monica Alexander

I certainly think that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman, and it is necessary, if you wish to master her, to conquer her by force; and it can be seen that she let's herself be overcome by these rather than by those who proceed coldly. And therefore, like a woman, she is a friend to the young, because they are less cautious, fiercer, and master her with greater audacity — Niccolo Machiavelli

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute. — Nancy Pelosi