Prestes Filho Quotes & Sayings

The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense. — Dana Gould

The Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims. — Bernard Cornwell

You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late. — Bradford Cox

When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you. — Ilona Andrews

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. — P. J. O'Rourke

Women are an alien race set down among us. — John Updike

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream. — Timbaland

Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both. — Regina Doman

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. — Michael East

Hindu fundamentalism," because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single sacred book. The name itself denotes something less, and more, than a set of theological beliefs. In many languages - French and Persian amongst them - the word for "Indian" is "Hindu." Originally "Hindu" simply meant the people beyond the river Sindhu, or Indus. But the Indus is now in Islamic Pakistan; and to make matters worse, the word "Hindu" did not exist in any Indian language till its use by foreigners gave Indians a term for self-definition. — Shashi Tharoor

I often ask myself whether my decision to pursue a life of scholarship -- if decision is the right word -- was a result of an essential poverty of the soul, or if the desiccation which I sometimes suspect is the one truly distinguishing mark of my scholarship was an inevitable consequence of that decision. — John Banville

So quickly does nationalism surface in the heart of a man who thought he was above such tribalism. — Orson Scott Card

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained. — Frederick Lenz