Star Wars Dak Quotes & Sayings

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill

Somehow no really terrible Western ideas like, say, witch-burning or communism ever get mentioned, though they seem just as plausibly the products of Judaeo-Christian culture as the spirit of capitalism. In any case, while culture may instil norms, institutions create incentives. Britons versed in much the same culture behaved very differently depending on whether they emigrated to New England or worked for the East India Company in Bengal. In the former case we find inclusive institutions, in the latter extractive ones. — Niall Ferguson

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call 'something there,' more deep and more general than any of the special and particular 'senses' by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed. If this were so, we might suppose the senses to waken our attitudes and conduct as they so habitually do, by first exciting this sense of reality; but anything else, any idea, for example, that might similarly excite it, would have that same prerogative of appearing real which objects of sense normally possess. — William James

So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way? — Lenny Kravitz

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas ... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture. — Mark Rothko

Recently my girlfriend asked me if I was having sex behind her back and I replied, "Yes, who did you think it was?" — Jimmy Carr

Cush: Pick you up at 7. Look hot. It'll distract him. Me: You're bad. Cush: Most girls tell me I'm good. Wanna find out? — Jillian Dodd

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate. — Mary Catherwood

It's a sobering thing, to see firsthand soldiers just home from war. — Tucker Elliot

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing. — Matsuo Basho

I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle — Liza Minnelli

We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us. — Caryll Houselander

The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge. — Lao-Tzu