Soumise Quotes & Sayings

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. — Charles Dickens

We are ... capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars. — Carl Sagan

My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess. — Richelle Mead

Bibles and prayers are great. Also great are people who have gone to school for years and years to learn how to help you work through things. The — Melanie Dale

This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence, and you could and perhaps should still find what goes on with welfare fraud prosecution in America crazy, even shocking.

Because the issue here isn't the efficacy of the welfare state. This is about fairness. Do we treat people the same way everywhere? How does a poor person end up getting arrested for fraud, and does the state have the same playbook for rich people?

The obvious answer is no, but you have to see the difference up close, at a day-to-day level, to really grasp the breadth of the gap. When you see, up close, where the awesome power of the American criminal justice space station is directed, you will begin scratching your head, no matter what you think of people on welfare. — Matt Taibbi

I hate her."
"Yes. I know. In fact, I think the entire universe knows. — Shelly Laurenston

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world ... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that. — Dan Buettner

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory. — Yoko Ono

Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his. — Ian McKellen

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's. — Kiera Cass

It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have. — Haile Gerima