Prohibitionists Target Quotes & Sayings

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?"
"Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up. — F.E. Higgins

To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be - *that* was magical. — Ransom Riggs

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling. — Rosamund Pike

Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations. — Israelmore Ayivor

Life never obeys our plans, I'm afraid. — Barbara Kloss

There is a luxury in self-reproach. — Oscar Wilde

I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. — Oscar Isaac

It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people - the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself. — Edith Wharton

We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones among us to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything. When we land at a place like London airport we are concerned only not to appear foolish. It is more beautiful and more complex than anything we could have dreamed of, but we are concerned only to let people see that we can manage and are not overawed. — V.S. Naipaul

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it. — Lloyd Alexander

The best thing of all is God is with us. — John Wesley

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them. — Ming-Na Wen

Ms. Whitlock is lost in her own world as she continues babbling about poem interpretations and people who died too long ago. — Katie McGarry