Unpressed Quotes & Sayings

No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. — Robert Wyatt

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. — Athol Fugard

The houses stood like men in unpressed suits, who had lost the desire to stand straight: — Ayn Rand

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. — John Suckling

I have such unmanageable thoughts,' returned his sister, 'that they will wonder.' 'Then — Charles Dickens

A woman on the verge of moral downfall ought to be well dressed. Claire's particular transgression was gartered to her thigh, a paper hidden by yards of silk. She walked through the empty alley, confident in one comforting truth: no one dared ask a lady what her skirts concealed... — Gina Conkle

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely. — Gene Sharp

Ten minutes later, I chance a second look. They say curiosity killed the cat. I wonder what that cat was looking at, and was it as interesting as this? — Sheena Hutchinson

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make. — Danny Meyer

When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda. — Peter Englund

Do you ever stop eating? — J.K. Rowling

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best. — Plato