Pumunta Quotes & Sayings

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses. — R. K. Milholland

Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom? Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriously to felicitate a mad-man, who has escaped from the protecting restraint and wholesome darkness of his cell, on his restoration to the enjoyment of light and liberty? Am I to congratulate a highwayman and murderer, who has broke prison, upon the recovery of his natural rights? This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys, and their heroic deliverer, the metaphysic knight of the sorrowful countenance. — Edmund Burke

You may not be mine but i'm fast becoming yours — Pepper Winters

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable. — Christina Hendricks

The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved, — Elizabeth Taylor

Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing. — Kay Kenyon

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital. — Jen Kirkman

I don't go for the flash and panache. — Paul Walker

Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. — Douglas Adams

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel. — Bobby Jindal

Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces. — Anthony Trollope

The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. — Richard Preston

I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned. — Paul Keating

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it. — Jean M. Auel