Vakama Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. — James Salter

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell. — Shirley Knight

Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability ... It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave. — Mark Kingwell

Unity! Duty! And destiny! — Greg Farshtey

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. — Albert Camus

The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divided against itself, and the three great wheels of its machinery exhaust their momentum, or wear each other out, in their friction against each other; while, as soon as it begins to go right, all the parts work harmoniously, and exhaust their full strength on the object of their action. — William Batchelder Greene

I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut. — Bobby Fischer

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person — Voltaire

His own reasons, and I had the unmistakable feeling - it buzzed — Ann Aguirre