Querella Penal Quotes & Sayings

The wondrous power of a drug is to offer the addict protection from pain while at the same time enabling her to engage the world with excitement and meaning. "It's not that my senses are dulled - no, they open, expanded," explained a young woman whose substances of choice are cocaine and marijuana. "But the anxiety is removed, and the nagging guilt and - yeah!" The drug restores to the addict the childhood vivacity she suppressed long ago. — Gabor Mate

The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence. — Alexis De Tocqueville

If you want to get wealth, focus on wealth. If you want happiness, focus on happiness. — Debasish Mridha

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.' — Isabella Rossellini

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. — Hedy Lamarr

And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end. — Caroline Kepnes

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. — Edmund White

Odd, said Miss Pettigrew conversationally, 'the undermining effect of flowers on a woman's common sense. — Winifred Watson

It is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see. — Anne Fortier

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. — John Calvin

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude, — Jean Chretien

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine. — Kevin Kline

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything. — Pat Morita

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. — Stephen Colbert