Preshas Quotes & Sayings

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much. — James Bryce

Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him. — Voltaire

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors. — Paul Lieberstein

Language isn't weird. People are weird. Language makes sense until people get their phoneme pukers on it." Teia — Brent Weeks

Your mind is ready and even eager to identify agents, assign them personality traits and specific intentions, and view their actions as expressing individual propensities. Here — Daniel Kahneman

There is madness in the mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is no more natural and no less conventional to shout in anger or to kiss in love than to call a table 'a table'. Feelings and passional conduct are invented like words. Even those which like paternity seem to be part and parcel of the human make-up are in reality institutions. It is impossible to superimpose on man a lower layer of behavior which one chooses to call 'natural' followed by a manufactured cultural or spiritual world. Everything is both manufactured and natural in man as it were in the sense that there is not a word, not a form of behavior which does not owe something to purely biological being and which at the same time does not elude the simplicity of animal life and cause forms of vital behavior to deviate from their pre-ordained direction through a sort of leakage and through a genius for ambiguity which might serve to define man. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox. — Erin Andrews

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh