Princess Nokia Quotes & Sayings

When you became a wizard you were expected to stop shaving and grow a beard like a gorse bush. Very senior wizards looked capable of straining nourishment out of the air via their mustaches, like whales. — Terry Pratchett

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all. — Harold Wilson

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis — Nicolas Barreau

There is not and cannot be in the whole world such a sin that the Lord will not forgive one who truly repents of it. A man even cannot commit so great a sin as would exhaust God's boundless love. How could there be a sin that exceeds God's love? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In crafting the Constitution, the Founders emphasized process, not results. If we follow the Constitution, we won't have a perfect society, which is unattainable by imperfect humans. But we will provide opportunity for people to use their natural rights to pursue the acquisition of property and their personal happiness. The results may yield sharp inequalities of income, but the process will guarantee chances for almost everyone. — Burton W. Folsom Jr.

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command. — Michael Hastings

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science. — Virginia Postrel

Oh come on. You treat her like a Greek goddess and act like a lap dog around her. It is embarrassing. — Wesley Chu

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. — Rumi

I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her. — William J. Clinton

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf — William Butler Yeats

Then Lyra gave a cry so passionate that even in that muffled, mist-hung world it raised an echo, but of course it wasn't an echo, it was the other part of her crying in turn from the land of the living as Lyra moved away into the land of the dead. "My heart, Will ... " she groaned, and clung to him, her wet face contorted with pain. And thus the prophecy that the Master of Jordan College had made to the Librarian, that Lyra would make a great betrayal and it would hurt her terribly, was fulfilled. — Philip Pullman

There is nothing," he added, "quite like the moral absolutism of the young. It's easy, as a child, to believe in good and evil, in light and dark. — Cassandra Clare