Provoiceusa Quotes & Sayings

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut. — Ice-T

Mankind ... possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. — Euripides

We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I don't even get eye contact. I ask her how her week is going, and she looks to her friend behind the counter as if to say: I think this creep is hitting on me. Shall we call the police? — Craig Stone

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. — Bill Pascrell

The gods help them who help themselves. — Aesop

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. — Annie Baker

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. — Asa Gray

The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak. — Stefanie Schneider

No human being is illegal. — Elie Wiesel

Memories are strange things. Withough being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer, they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is not water. — Joy Sikorski

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility. — Aristotle.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. — John Calvin

A literary achievement of the highest order. — David Guterson

I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me. — Haruki Murakami

For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death. Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, to take into the air my quiet breath — John Keats