Valrie Campbell Quotes & Sayings

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it. — Fernando Pessoa

What?"
"Nothing, it's just ... you've been 'Galinda-fied'. You don't have to do that, you know? — Stephen Schwartz

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. — David Harsanyi

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. — Nick Harkaway

Power and speed be hands and feet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The bus made its way slowly through Sydney traffic and out to the electorate of Reid. It was a hat-trick of medical centres: three in three days. Outside we waited as rain fell. A large truck with the huge face of Labor's local candidate Angelo Tsirekas plastered on the side, honked as it drove past the national media. Minutes later a bigger truck, bearing the face of the Liberal candidate Craig Laundy, drove slowly past, mugging it up for the cameras. There were a few giggles. Then, as if the whole thing had been co-ordinated, both trucks returned driving past the medical centre, up the street and around the corner, one after the other. A staff member of the medical centre leant over to his friend and spoke out of the side of his mouth: "Well isn't this the lamest dick-measuring contest you've ever seen. — Mark Di Stefano

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk. — Anne Rice

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth? — Nelly