Quadrumanes Quotes & Sayings

Two things make smoking a virtuous habit. In the first place, the smoker, by paying billions of pounds in tobacco duty, pretty well pays for the entire hospital service. In the second place, by dying on average five years younger that the non-smoker, the smoker reduces the burden of old age on society as a whole. — Auberon Waugh

desires are not killed by fulfilling them — Hermann Hesse

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall. — Ellis Peters

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all. — Ricky Martin

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times. — Christian D. Larson

So I see no reason why, just because a couple of womenfolk have kicked the bucket, people should start writing religion about them. — Halldor Laxness

here you've got to live, breathe, and eat trust, or you're dead. — Raymond E. Feist

Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket. — Julian May

And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness of self gives him an unusual dignity in the animal kingdom, he also pays a tragic price for it. The fact that the child has to identify -first- means that his very first identity is a social product. His habitation of his own body is built from the outside in; not from the inside out. He doesn't unfold into the world, the world unfolds into him. As the child responds to the vocal symbols learned from his object, he often gives the pathetic impression of being a true social puppet, jerked by alien symbols and sounds. What sensitive parent does not have his satisfaction tinged with sadness as the child repeats with such vital earnestness the little symbols that are taught him? — Ernest Becker

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself. — Theodore Roosevelt

Caine:
Sheep. So long as they had a shepherd to ward off the wolves, they were happy. Spineless, indifferent, weak, stupid: it was hard not to have complete contempt for them. — Michael Grant

Dragos asked, "What on earth is that?"
"It's a vegan harvest roast."
He shook his head. "I'm sorry, lover, someone should have taught you this by now. The word 'vegan' and 'roast' do not go together in the same sentence. — Thea Harrison

Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves
sees more. — Clinton Bailey

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. — Samuel Woodworth

Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not. — Mary J. Blige