Ripetutamente Quotes & Sayings

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government. — Aristotle.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference ... I got set next to this woman ... she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I aint even sure what she meant by it ... She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she'll be able to have an abortion. I'm goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she'll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation. — Cormac McCarthy

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio. — Gerry Francis

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers. — Janette Oke

You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
We have one loving and one hating hand.
The loving's made to hold each other like,
While with the hating other hand we strike. — Robert Frost

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. — Henry Rollins

I'm grateful for my family: that's what defines me; that's what makes me whole. — Jane Clayson

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed. — Eric Close

It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well. — Manil Suri

She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness. — Victoria Dahl

Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listen. — Stephen Chbosky

It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When I was growing up I noticed something. Every time I wanted to do something and I feared that I will fail, I always ended up failing. In life, whatever you fear always happen to you. — A.B. Joseph

You don't need moolah if you're a travel writer," I said. — Jeff Soloway