Vodopija Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day. — Dacia Maraini

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them. — Davy Rothbart

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus. — Umberto Eco

When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks. — Simon Hoggart

I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
And how many birthdays have you?"
One. — Lewis Carroll

One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11. — Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

But there was a pulling back in the Middle East, and it had two major consequences: it abetted the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, and it contributed to the massive outflow of refugees from that region into Europe. That outflow in turn helped to create the anti-immigration backlash that fueled the British withdrawal from the European Union and the rise of populist/nationalist politics inside almost every EU member state. It — Thomas L. Friedman