Terrifically Quick Quotes & Sayings

Well, in the first flush of love, if someone tells you to read something then you damn well read it [ ... ] — David Nicholls

Don't wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours. — Gina Greenlee

I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was. — Nikki Sanderson

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region. — Mohammad Javad Zarif

Is the buying-your-own-drinks thing what you use to give guys the polite brush-off, and now you're just offering me the seat because you feel sorry for me, or do I actually have a chance here? — Chanel Cleeton

Sanctification of souls! — Lailah Gifty Akita

[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests, which so often take place between the one and the other, the latter may, on that account, challenge the preference. Unless perhaps one may say (and it may be said with some reason) that a circumstance, which is essential to the existence of civil society, must always support itself, and needs be guarded with less jealousy, than one that contributes only to its perfection, which the indolence of men is so apt to neglect, or their ignorance to overlook. — David Hume

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican. — Jeff Sharlet

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit. — Seneca The Younger

I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves. — Laozi