Tanise Underbelly Quotes & Sayings

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter. — Cyril Connolly

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself. — Domhnall Gleeson

Don't feel sorry for me. Most people can't change their past. I change mine every day. — Courtney Milan

(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists. — Bertrand Russell

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. — Georges St-Pierre

McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men - (the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary) - must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.
So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses. — Maureen Dowd

She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.'
'You told me to risk it.' I reminded her.
'That was for you,' she said 'I would not live my life as you live yours. You would always do as you were bid. I am not like you. I make my own way. — Philippa Gregory

in my own. It forms the image that — Kate McCarthy

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black. — Lorraine Hansberry

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. — Elihu Root

What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically. — Bill Maher

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography. — Eliza Doolittle

Purify the mind through selfless service. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Passion is more important than justice. — Carson McCullers

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me. — Nell Zink