Vohnout Quotes & Sayings

Nothing exists without a purpose. And we humans are subject to the laws of nature just as everything else on earth is. — Caroline Myss

When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily. — Gwen Ifill

The judgment, handed down by Judge Ian Chin of the Sarawak High Court, demonstrated astonishing independence from the Malaysian government. Chin knew the price of that independence. After a much-maligned judgment against a politician belonging to the ruling Barisan National government in 1998, he had been verbally threatened by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and then enrolled in a five-day boot camp with other judges for "re-educational" purposes. While there, the primacy of the government's interests was hammered into the judicial civil servants.3 Crushing the independence of the courts was done systematically under Mahathir. In 1988, the autocratic Premier had arbitrarily dismissed the country's top judge, Lord President Salleh Abas, thereby keeping the remaining judges on a short lead.4 Even today, in 2014, Malaysia's judges still have difficulty ruling independently when government interests are at stake. — Lukas Straumann

We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control. — Martin Schulz

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? — George Eliot

I swear on the Angel." He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. "The hell with that. I swear on us. — Cassandra Clare

I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write. — Lang Leav

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces. — Roger Ebert

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare. — C.S. Lewis

The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely — Tony Hoagland