Wakamine Quotes & Sayings

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice. — James Madison

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. — Dorothy West

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year. — Anna Friel

Erin, I'd like to know you again. Can we do that? He brushed the back of his knuckles down her cheek. — Lauren Dane

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — George R R Martin

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
(Isa. 45:22) — Robert Bowman

As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running. — Willa Cather

As a matter of fact, Janice wrote Preacher a letter in red ink on lace-trimmed paper in which she told him he was vile beyond all human beings and words, that she considered their engagement broken, that he could have back the stuffed squirrel he'd given her. Preacher, saying he wanted to act nice, stopped her the next time she passed our house, and said, well, hell, she could keep that old squirrel if she wanted to. Afterwards, he couldn't understand why Janice ran away bawling the way she did. — Truman Capote

I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine. — Rudyard Kipling

There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person. — Elizabeth McGovern

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity. — Evan Esar