Proscriptive Versus Quotes & Sayings

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends, — John McCain

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible. — Andrew Wyeth

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer. — Alexa Von Tobel

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important. — Dalai Lama

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. — Naomi Wolf

We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. — George W. Bush

You know what we have to do?"
The Italian nodded. "I know."
"You don't look too happy about it."
"Defacing a beautiful building is a crime."
"But killing people is not?" Dee asked.
"Well, people can always be replaced. — Michael Scott

You gonna marry her? This is the one out of seven billion?"
"It is. And I am. I've got to. It's like ... sometimes ... "
"Speak."
"Sometimes I think I'm not going to make it another day without getting a ring on that girl's finger and changing her fucking last name from theirs to mine. I'm going to spend the rest of my life with her, and I want it to start yesterday. — Cherrie Lynn

You hear that? The nice blonde in her thirties is actually more than 140 years old. — Kevin Hearne

People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves. — Meljean Brook