Tyrany Quotes & Sayings

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. — E. M. Forster

You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It is the realisation that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-naturedly fleeced, but fleeced nonetheless, in public and on a New York sidewalk by card sharks, and who are unable because of social conventions to show their anger, who don't want to look like poor sports. — Douglas Coupland

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. — Bertrand Russell

According to the Bible a tyrant is somebody, some civil magistrate that seeks to impose upon it's people another law than the law of God; that derives it policies and it's laws from another source of law, than the source of the law of God contained in Holy Scripture. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day. — Robert Breault

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind. — Wallace D. Wattles

This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector. — Plato

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that. — Steve Burns

I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone. — Jimmy Cliff

The way I look at it is this: If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name. — Ken Liu

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. — Willie Stargell

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result. — Carolyn Wells

As a jailer, I never got to understand my charges. But when I became a bandit, I spent a lot of time being close to the lowliest of the low: criminals, the enslaved, deserters, men who had nothing to lose. Contrary to what I had expected, I found that they had a hardscrabble beauty and grace. They were not mean in their nature, but made mean by the meanness of their rulers. The poor were willing to endure much, but the emperor had taken everything from them. — Ken Liu

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions. — Jason Aldean

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom. — Aeschylus