Variste De Parny Quotes & Sayings

All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness. — Nathaniel Branden

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. — Miguel Syjuco

When life hands you lemons sometimes you just have to say screw the lemons, and bail. — Magan Vernon

I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity. — Michael Graves

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. — David Blunkett

What are the boundaries of charity? When started, where does it morally end? — Tatjana Soli

Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a mission no sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one's life. You are today the custodians of India's national honour and the embodiment of India's hopes and aspirations. So conduct yourself that your countrymen may bless you and posterity may be proud of you. — Subhas Chandra Bose

When you supply yourself with the proper vitamins and minerals, you enable the body to heal itself. — Joseph P. Kauffman

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy. — Demi Moore

Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic. — Philip Kitcher

I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up ... — John Paulson

What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice."
"Maybe you should hit harder. — Richelle Mead