Summarizes Or Summarises Quotes & Sayings

Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions. — Ted Cruz

There comes a time when the fall of snow is no longer the start of a marvellous
adventure. There comes a time when it means scraping your windscreen and
hoping your car starts. It means aching joints and throbbing sinuses and cold
hands and feet. It means taking longer to get to work and spending all day
sitting in an office where the heating isn't on. Grey slush and cracked pipes,
cancelled trains and influenza, that's what snow means. You'll wake up feeling
like that, one day, and it will mean you are grown up. I hope that day doesn't
come soon. — Lance Parkin

She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams. — Harry Chapin

The primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. — G.K. Chesterton

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do. — Edward Abbey

How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. — Nina LaCour

When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together ... If you are still thinking. laughter will be just so-so ... It will be a crippled laughter. — Rajneesh

Democrats didn't agree with policies. How do I know? Because they voted against them when they came up on the floor of the House and the Senate. — George W. Bush

The [Barack] Obama administration wants to take our rights to keep and bear arms away from us. They are trying to take our God, and our gun. And if they do that, they can impose a dictatorship upon us. — Ted Cruz

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. — Jean Dubuffet

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. — Diane Setterfield

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful. — Maureen Dowd

I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma. — Eartha Kitt