Violative Prescription Quotes & Sayings

We fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity. — Nelson Mandela

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' — Jeff Bezos

I pay my taxes, but I've never voted and I never will vote as long as the system works the way it does. Even when Obama was running, I wanted to see a woman run! I'd rather see a woman in the White House as opposed to Obama. — Lupe Fiasco

It was indeed a time between, one second their thoughts all brambled airedale, the next all silken slumbering cat. It was a time to go to bed, yet still they lingered reluctant as boys to give over and wander in wide circles to pillow and night thoughts. It was a time to say much but not all. It was a time after first discoveries but not last ones. It was wanting to know everything and wanting to know nothing. It was the new sweetness of men starting to talk as they must talk. It was the possible bitterness of revelation. — Ray Bradbury

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs. — Voltaire

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward. — John Portman

Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony ... — Mohsin Hamid

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life. — Count Basie

Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from. — D. A. Pennebaker

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation. — David Adjaye

How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times! — Catherynne M Valente

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. — Sarah McLachlan

She found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last deceiving philter of the desperate. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately. — Gail Carriger