Poulie Fixe Quotes & Sayings

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime. — Wayne Jacobsen

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century. — Judit Polgar

But the permitting, the authorizing of something always concealed an element of dubiousness for him, something vague and not quite spoken. When a dramatic circle, a reading room or tearoom was permitted in town, he would shake his head and say softly:
'That's very well, of course, it's all splendid, but something may come of it.'
- The Man in a Case — Anton Chekhov

In today's Britain, the weakest among us are often assumed to be minority communities. In fact, the weakest are those minorities-within-minorities for whom the legal right to exit from their communities' constraints amounts to nothing before the enforcement of cultural and religious shaming. — Maajid Nawaz

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit. — John Derbyshire

And, I wondered, would I follow his path to indifference? Would my compassion start to slip away? Perhaps. But perhaps patients didn't want compassion from brain surgeons. They might prefer Nietzsche to Alan Alda, a superman who would make them better - even if he didn't give a shit. Unfortunately, Gary fulfilled neither role for Andy. I would have to learn to quit crying at funerals. — Anonymous

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny

Our society has come to adopt many of the draconian measures Orwell
tried to warn us about. Cameras monitor citizens from nearly every street
corner in the United Kingdom, and there are a steadily growing number
of them mounted on traffic lights in America. The fact that Orwell's 1984
remains a part of the required reading curriculum in many high schools
across the country is laughably ironic. What is truly sad is how many readers
acknowledge the brilliant foresight of Orwell yet fail to grasp how closely
present-day America (and England) resemble Winston Smith's Oceania. — Donald Jeffries