War Measures Act Quotes & Sayings

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. — Amor Towles

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues. — Chuck Zito

I was going to buy my girl a Packard car for Christmas, but it took too long to deliver, so I bought her some handkerchiefs. — Jack Benny

Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back. -Cade — Cora Carmack

It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for. — Sam Harris

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years. — Robert Browning

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. — Robert Bourassa

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness. — Emile Durkheim

The bed of a tortured soul is always in shambles by morning. — Elizabeth Mckenzie

The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone. But what about the supernatural stories? Can we, the children of a scientific age, give any credence to these medleys of devils, ghosts, and other psychical invasions? There is only one answer: we can and do. We are dealing with stories, not with scientific dissertations. And if, as stories, they have the ring of truth, we'll believe them, as stories, implicitly.
("Introduction") — Herbert A. Wise

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are. — Rudolf Arnheim