Sta Uote Quotes & Sayings

They say that democracy cannot be adopted; it has to be adapted to the African way of thinking. What does that mean? That the all-powerful and corrupt political leaders should stay in power? That Teodoro Obiang, the President of Equatorial Guinea, should appropriate all the country's money for himself, a country with income per capita of more than 20,000 euros thanks to oil but where people suffer hunger and poverty? Or that women should not have any rights? — Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

People rarely use advice. — James Cook

The great variability of all the external differences between the races of man, likewise indicates that they cannot be of much importance; for if important, they would long ago have been either fixed and preserved, or eliminated. — Charles Darwin

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. — Max Lerner

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong. — Dan Brown

As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old. — Russell Edson

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers. — Jostein Gaarder

Desmo is my guard dog, but he has a sweet side, too. Nothing entertains him (or me) more than when I blow bubbles and he can chase them. — Debi Mazar

Universal meaninglessness gives way to ecstatic inebriation, an orgy of irrationality. Since the world has no meaning, let us live! Without definite aims or accessible ideals, let us throw ourselves into the roaring whirlwind of infinity, follow its tortuous path in space, burn in its flames, love its cosmic madness and total anarchy! To live infinity, as well as to meditate a long time upon it, is the most terrifying lesson in anarchy and revolt one can ever learn. Infinity shakes you to the roots of your being, disorganizes you, but it also makes you forget the petty, the contingent, and the insignificant. — Emil Cioran

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. — Will Rogers

Where are we - " Kyungsoo yelps as Jongin practically throws him over the window pane of a filthy-rich looking convertible, a treacherous little thing parked up against the curb, all black exteriors and plush white interiors, not even bothering to open the door, "going?"
"To see fireflies," Jongin says muffling coughs in his sleeves, and it's only when Kyungsoo buckles up and looks over does he realize that the boy is grinning from ear to ear, "Real ones. — Changdictator

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing ... I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton. — Pippa Middleton

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias. — Vikram Seth