Secret Agent Clank Quotes & Sayings

What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge, — Robert M. Pirsig

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects. — Joseph Kosuth

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. — Edward Conlon

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers. — Gore Vidal

Rather than being so ready to jump into action to get the things that you want, we say think them into being; see them, visualize them, and expect them - and they will be. — Esther Hicks

I'm going to drink his blood, I'm going to chew up his heart and spit it into the gutter for the dogs to raise a leg at. I'm going to peel the skin off him and rip out his veins and hang him with them. — Richard Stark

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. — James Harrington

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora. — Mohsin Hamid

That king who forsakes lust, anger, bestows wealth to needy,
Discriminates, is learned, active, is regarded as man of authority;
Prosperity is attends on king who inspires confidence in others truly,
Who punishes guilty in right measure, knows when to show mercy.
[97] - 33 Mahatma Vidur — Munindra Misra

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. — Ani DiFranco

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life ... The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber ... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you. — Lysander Spooner

I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them. — Alasdair MacLean

She realized she'd been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until she'd checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one hopes for never quite lives up to the expectation. — Robert Jackson Bennett