Portal Morality Core Quotes & Sayings

For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected. — Jane Gardam

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential — Gordon Brown

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. — John Barton

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward. — Frank Herbert

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them. — Allen Shawn

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny. — Roh Moo-hyun

Pretty people do ugly things.
It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever started to forget that ride for a second, there always seemed to be some good-looking asshole ready to remind her. — Francine Pascal

In the end, I stopped worrying about how strange you seemed. I realized that it didn't really matter if I understood you, because I trusted you. — Brandon Sanderson

Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic. — Pat Conroy

You are worth every heartache I've endured, every sleepless night, every red-rimmed eye. I am fragmented with you and without. I cannot decipher much of anything else. — Wennie Hong

I knew her better than herself ... and she was beautiful and strong and felt deep. It has always surprised me to see the way she saw herself; how little she thought about her person. It struck me as surprising because every single time I've seen her, I've thought her larger than life. And that's why the world feared her. Because they couldn't compare to her; she raised a new bar for others to be measured by. Because looking at the sun hurts ... and she was that to me. My own piece of sky. — Eiry Nieves

To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia. — Christy Clark

In later years this
is the one memory he
wishes would go away and
not come back. And the
reason he cannot bear her
dying is not the loss of her
(which is the future) but
that dying puts the two of
them (now) into this
nakedness together that is
unforgiveable. They do not
forgive it. He turns away.
This roaring air in his
arms. She is released. — Anne Carson

Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level. — Angelina Jolie