Stendhal Le Quotes & Sayings

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail, — Elliott Smith

I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition. — Gerry Spence

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals. — Helen Clark

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. — Mary Douglas

Less than a decade after the explosion of the first atom bomb the megamachine had expanded to a point where it began to dominate key areas of the whole economy of the United States: its system of control reached beyond the airfields, the rocket sites, the bomb factories, the universities, to a hundred other related areas, tying the once separate and independent enterprises to a central organization whose irrational and humanly subversive policies ensured the still further expansion of the megamachine. Financial subventions, research grants, educational subsidies, all worked unceasingly for the 'Life, Prosperity, Health' of the new rulers, headed by Goliaths in brass armor bellowing threats of defiance and destruction at the entire world. In a short time, the original military-industrial-scientific elite became the supreme Pentagon of Power, for it incorporated likewise both the bureaucratic and the educational establishments. — Lewis Mumford

These Korean shopkeepers seem pretty angry at me for not being Korean. — Stephen Schneider

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

When she arrived, I was certain she would ruin Tatum. I never had imagined she'd be the person to try to save me. — Teresa Mummert

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students. — Jeb Bush

I write garbage and people buy it — Michael Pease

I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can! — Anna Maxwell Martin

Your anger is a gift. — Zack De La Rocha

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de
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'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He said this so well, and with such majesty than Julien could not help thinking that knowing how to lose his temper with a footman was the whole extent of this great personage's knowledge. — Stendhal