Sonia Sontag Quotes & Sayings

You can fool some of the people some of the time
and that's enough to make a decent living. — W.C. Fields

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. — Robert Cecil

When I'm going to events, I like Armani because I think they do a cross between my relaxed rocky feel and a really smart elegant look really well. — Ruta Gedmintas

I welcome challenges. I like challenges. It gives me a reason to keep going. — Rose Namajunas

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup. — Mikhail Gorbachev

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have. — Susanna Clarke

Any considerable number of the people believe the Constitution to be good, why do they not sign it themselves, and make laws for, and administer them upon, each other; leaving all other persons (who do not interfere with them) in peace? Until they have tried the experiment for themselves, how can they have the face to impose the Constitution upon, or even to recommend it to, others? Plainly the reason for absurd and inconsistent conduct is that they want the Constitution, not solely for any honest or legitimate use it can be of to themselves or others, but for the dishonest and illegitimate power it gives them over the persons and properties of others. But for this latter reason, all their eulogiums on the Constitution, all their exhortations, and all their expenditures of money and blood to sustain it, would be wanting. — Lysander Spooner

You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself. — Garrett Hedlund

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science. — George Smoot

Later, months later, when Jude thought back to the way it all went down -how did a burnout like him end up straight edge?- he'd remember that ambulance, just like the one he'd been unconscious inside. Its red cross, when viewed from the right angle, was an X on its side. — Eleanor Henderson

The most valuable gift you can give to humanity is a good example. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust. — Martti Ahtisaari