Sobieslaw Zasada Quotes & Sayings

absolute silence of the courtroom, — Grant Boshoff

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God. — Robert Breault

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge to-day of any civilisation ... [T]he type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that. — Allen Toussaint

A flock isn't such a bad thing if you belong, but a few hundred starlings will tear an unlucky martin to feathers if it crosses their path. — Joe Hill

She's oxygen, and without her, I'm dead. — J.M. Darhower

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content. — Marquis De Sade

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe ...
Polly Baker — Benjamin Franklin

I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.' — Brie Larson

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost. — Edward Snowden

I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?" Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction. — Toni Morrison

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is! — Elizabeth Gaskell