Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Mailer

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Octavio Paz

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Emilie Autumn

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Emile M. Cioran

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Emile M. Cioran

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

Emile M. Cioran

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

Emile M. Cioran

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Emile M. Cioran

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

Emile M. Cioran

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Marcel Achard

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Pope John Paul II

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.

Philippe Falardeau

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Pope Francis

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

LL Cool J

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honor is what you know about yourself.

Dan Chapman

It's an honor to host the Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup, in my opinion, is the most symbolic and well-known trophy in sports.

Michael Sohn

It's an honor to have the first lady show her support.

Hal Lebovitz

It's an honor to be inducted because I'll be with all these top-notch people,

Jon Newlee

It's an honor to be in any kind of post-season. It's a reward for winning the Big Sky title.

Billie Armstrong

It's an honor to be here because it's an honor. I think I need some eyeliner.

John Grahame

It's an honor that I've been waiting for, and that I'm ready for.

Pierre Turgeon

It's an honor of being a part of Joe at the same time,