Things Probably Tomfoolery Quotes & Sayings

When the salute had finished, people applauded, and the cold group began to break up.

"That's enough noise to wake the dead," a voice said very near Stella's ear. — J.J. Cook

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. — Jean De La Bruyere

The way of Friends is to think quietly and to listen. We ask the question, we consider how the answer is made by different people, we ask again, answer again, change our minds; we reach an understanding. The Meeting evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, not by the weight of the majority, but by the capacity of individual human beings to comprehend one another. — Molly Gloss

We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities. — Mohammad Javad Zarif

Women are a very recent invention. I predate the invention of women by decades. Well, if you insist on pedantic accuracy, women have been invented several times in widely varying localities, but the inventors just didn't know how to sell the product. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process. — M. Night Shyamalan

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. — Sean Penn

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I? — Neil Armstrong

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process. — Kofi Annan

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. — Edward Kennedy