"We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one."

-- StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Source : Private Eye Magazine, #1170, October 27 - November 09, 2006.
“For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.”
“it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.”
“Lucas seemed to have realized our prediciment at the same moment I had. "I haven't got my credit card with me. Kinda left in a hurry. We just spent the only cash I had in my pocket." Too-bright signs from the few open stores made mee squint. "We'd have been better off with a slingshot and Oreos.”
“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”
“When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
“The only city people are those born so.”
“You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.”

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