Udlms Quotes & Sayings

Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You are free not to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property, and everything else. But from this day forth you shall be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if you seek the votes of your fellow citizens, they will withhold them, and if you seek only their esteem, they will feign to refuse even that. You will remain among men, but you will forfeit your rights to humanity. When you approach your fellow creatures, they will shun you as one who is impure. And even those who believe in your innocence will abandon you, lest they, too, be shunned in turn. Go in peace, I will not take your life, but the life I leave you with is worse than death. — Alexis De Tocqueville

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I nodded and wiped away my tears. "Yeah," I said. "Until then, we fight. — K.A. Applegate

Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it. — Alex Trebek

She climbed back into bed, slid down between her boys, and slept at last. — Nancy Horan

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan. — Nikki Haley

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here! — Adam Baldwin

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution
let there be God! — Henry Adams

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

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You called to ask me when I was coming home, and when I reminded you that I wasn't coming home, you sounded so dissapointed that I decided to come home. — David Levithan

I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting. — Stephen Boss

When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws. — Caroline Knapp

I'd never seen him before, but he looked a lot like my next mistake. — Jamie McGuire