Sevroll Quotes & Sayings

Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge? — Jimmy Carter

But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been. — H.P. Lovecraft

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. — Anatole France

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think. — Rachel Caine

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. — Marcus Aurelius

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder. — Brian Cox

Rural and traditional escapism. That's my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live. — Fennel Hudson

When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a lot of things in the workplace that you can attempt to hide, and I could not hide the fact that I was a woman. I was always the only woman in the press box, and they didn't even have ladies rooms. — Lesley Visser

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south. — Berti Vogts

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. — Marquis De Sade

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. — D.H. Lawrence

Easy to dimiss, perhaps, but difficult to hate. — Brandon Sanderson

A similar phenomenon developed with acid rain in the 1990s, as the media attended to the idea that its cause was still not established - more than a decade after that was no longer true - or the claim that it would cost more to fix than it was worth, which was unsupported by evidence. — Naomi Oreskes

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! — H.L. Mencken