Robersons Quotes & Sayings

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome. — Edward Gibbon

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. — Christina Aguilera

I want to do really good things with my life. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi

For the law is not jurisprudence, not a weighty tome full of articles, not philosophical treatises, not peevish nonsense about justice, not hackneyed platitudes about morality and ethics. The law means safe paths and highways. It means backstreets one can walk along even after sundown. It means inns and taverns one can leave to visit the privy, leaving one's purse on the table and one's wife beside it. The law is the sleep of people certain they'll be woken by the crowing of the rooster and not the crashing of burning roof timbers! And for those who break the law; the noose, the axe, the stake and the red-hot iron! Punishments which deter others. — Andrzej Sapkowski

The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it. — Kool Moe Dee

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it. — Jim McDermott

Well," the voice said, seemingly oblivious, "one thing that does happen when you live a long time is that you start to realise the essential futility of so much that we do, especially when you see the same patterns of behaviour repeated by succeeding generations and across different species. You see the same dreams, the same hopes, the same ambitions and aspirations, reiterated, and the same actions, the same courses and tactics and strategies, regurgitated, to the same predictable and often lamentable effects, and you start to think, So? Does it really matter? Why really are you bothering with all this? Are these not just further doomed, asinine ways of attempting to fill your vacuous, pointless existence, wedged slivered as it is between the boundless infinitudes of dark oblivion book-ending its utter triviality?" "Uh-huh, — Iain M. Banks

Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal. — Nandita Das

What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest. — Dennis Kucinich

I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available. — Jill Bolte Taylor

I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends — Bangambiki Habyarimana

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day. — Scott Tolzien