Qgodkata Quotes & Sayings

He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human. — P.G. Wodehouse

I am not a conservative - neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook ... I just do not happen to be that animal. — Allan Bloom

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. — Kay Redfield Jamison

This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee. — Marco Rubio

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds? — Christopher Hitchens

I would like Britain - and indeed other countries - to be run in the interests of people's needs and aspirations, rather than on the basis of profit for a small elite; for democracy to be democratically managed by working people; for democracy to be extended as far as possible, including in the workplace and the economy. — Owen Jones

No matter how much you think you know a person - no matter how pretty they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like. — Jess Rothenberg

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. — Charles Bukowski

I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world. — Lil B

No fear ... we are never sure of anything ... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening. — Vanessa Paradis

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do. — Judith Martin

Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago ... two weeks ago ... three weeks ago, I was there!' And, little by little, in her memory, the faces all blurred together; she forgot the tunes of the quadrilles; no longer could she so clearly picture the liveries and the rooms; some details disappeared, but the yearning remained. — Gustave Flaubert

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. — Samantha Morton

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.' — C.S. Lewis

Evil is relatively rare; ignorance is epidemic. — Jon Stewart