Zouraora Quotes & Sayings

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else. — T-Pain

Such narrowly missed human connection as this can in fact be fatal, no matter who's at fault, and often results in unrecoverable free fall and a too-hasty conclusion that 'the whole goddamn thing's not worth bothering with or it wouldn't be so goddamn confusing all the goddamn time,' after which one party (or both) just wanders off and never thinks to look toward the other again. Such is the iffiness of romance. — Richard Ford

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. — Pico Iyer

The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Those two need each other like a bullet needs a target — Wendy Higgins

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization! — Katherine Anne Porter

Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person. — Temple Grandin

Standing there, that day, I felt like Sally was being torn from my skin and there was no way I could ever fly free, without her right beside me. — Belinda Jeffrey

The congregation is the pastor's place for developing vocational holiness. It goes without saying that it is the place of ministry: we preach the word and administer the sacraments, we give pastoral care and administer the community life, we teach and we give spiritual direction. But it is also the place in which we develop virtue, learn to love, advance in hope - become what we preach. — Eugene H. Peterson

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. — Norah Jones

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject. — Robert Anton Wilson

It's not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past. — William Goldman

If Jesus honored His mother hanging on a cross,
how much more should men honor their mothers? — Matshona Dhliwayo

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. — Joe Conason

I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night
makes you feel the teemingness of it all. — John Dos Passos