Sochna In English Quotes & Sayings

In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as retirement, — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups. — Richard O'Brien

Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hill-side, and quivered on the pilgrim's face. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. — David Ogilvy

Okay." I held up my hands in surrender. "I just don't understand this, Mel. Don't bitch-slap the table. It's not its fault. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives. — Margaret Sanger

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns. — Rahm Emanuel

Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men ... it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid ... knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversations of his elders he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life. — George Eliot

I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel, A Clergyman's Daughter , published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of Ulysses did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too. — Christopher Hitchens

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient — Marilynne Robinson

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it. — Rosie Perez

I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower. — Gypsy Rose Lee

Young people are so brave when they go to fight. — Emmanuel Jal

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be. — Iris Apfel