Somersaults By Avon Quotes & Sayings

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. — Gustave Le Bon

We who have the luxury of living in the West have an obligation to stand up for liberal principles. Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture's intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women's rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity. And we need to say unambiguously to Muslims living in the West: if you want to live in our societies, to share in their material benefits, then you need to accept that our freedoms are not optional. They are the foundations of our way of life; of our civilization - a civilization that learned, slowly and painfully, not to burn heretics, but to honor them. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose ... Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.' — Richard M. Nixon

Don't let your sober face elate you, however; you don't know what it may come to — Charles Dickens

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days. — Thomas Sowell

The geology of Staten Island is the most complex of the city's boroughs, containing the terminal moraine of the last ice age, a fault line from 470 million years ago, the southern tail of the Palisades formation, and sediments collected over the millennia. — Sergey Kadinsky

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable? — Margaret Mitchell

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde

Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently. — Michael Ignatieff

I loved him, and no matter what my reasons were to live without him, I knew it wasn't what I wanted. — Jamie McGuire

Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist. — Marla Buchanan

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life. — Emilia Clarke

All you want is love and belonging, and your very existence depends on it. But when you get it, you have no existence except that love; there's still no you. — Kiera Van Gelder