Sociopolitical Evolution Quotes & Sayings

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus. — Chris Pine

A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery. — Thomas Wolfe

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it. — Felix Dennis

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio. — George Carlin

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres. — Arthur Helps

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. — Joseph Addison

One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week. — Gina Bellman

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious. — J. R. Martinez

Based on my own experience, I believe the brain is as soft and malleable as bread dough when we're young. I am grateful for every class trip to the symphony I went on and curse any night I was allowed to watch The Brady Bunch, because all of it stuck. Conversely, I am now capable of forgetting entire novels that I've read, and I've been influenced not at all by books I passionately love and would kill to be influenced by. Think about this before you let your child have an iPad. — Ann Patchett

There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything, would seemingly be a contradiction in terms. — Brian Greene

Nothing is more creative ... nor destructive ... than a brilliant mind with a purpose. — Dan Brown

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look. — Malcolm Turnbull

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. — Elizabeth Bowen

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. — William Shakespeare

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. — D.H. Lawrence