"I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)"

-- Ally Carter

#Said Quotes #Fine Quotes #Semester Quotes

“The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.”
“Iâ€™ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. Itâ€™s like my last luxury.”
“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.”
“What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.43, Penguin
“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”
“The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.”
“The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.”

Source : George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, Penguin UK

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