Amendes Quebec Quotes

#1. There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#2. That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron.

Aldous Huxley

#3. You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

J. Michael Straczynski

#4. And besides . . . I don't want to leave you. Er, you guys."

He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. "Well, 'we' are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I'm also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you're in St. Louis."

I grinned back.

Richelle Mead

#5. Like charges, charges of the same sign, strongly repel one another. We can think of it as a dedicated mutual aversion to their own kind, a little as if the world were densely populated by anchorites and misanthropes.

Carl Sagan

#6. Careful!" warned Friar Lorenzo, trying to close the lid. "You know not what infection those lips carry!

Anne Fortier

#7. Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Augustus Hare

#8. The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling.

Arto Paasilinna

#9. It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.

Richard Dawkins

#10. A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Jane Campion

#11. Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.

Sasha Cohen

#12. My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

Ty Burrell

#13. Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rita Mae Brown

#14. To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

Richie Ashburn