Protracting Shoulder Quotes & Sayings

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty? — Catherine The Great

The separation of "church and state" of which America is so proud was established in Islam fourteen centuries ago, when it was decided that no Caliph would have religious authority over the community. — Reza Aslan

Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two ... — Plato

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable. — Kathy Najimy

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless. — Chin-Ning Chu

There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck. — Louise Penny

I am a lover for sure. I love to be loved. — Julio Iglesias

Only in retrospect do I appreciate that this "doing your bit" is a deadly misapprehension of the nature of familial ties. Better understanding them now, I find blood relationships rather frightening. What is wonderful about kinship is also what is horrible about it: there is no line in the sand, no natural limit to what these people can reasonably expect of you. — Lionel Shriver

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. — Frank Auerbach

I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large. — Edward C. Prescott

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. — Steven Moffat

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making. — Robert Redford

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. — Mike Tyson

The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs. — Abhijit Naskar

I don't plan to be a gentleman about this Victoria. He doesn't want you - he doesn't want anyone - an I do." ~ Sebastian — Colleen Gleason