Dinna Ken Quotes

#1. A friend once told me 'The body has nay conscience.' I dinna ken that that's entirely so-but it is true that the body doesna generally admit the possibility of nonexistence. And if ye exist-well, ye need food, that's all.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

Ian Bremmer

#3. -( ... ) There's towns, Urb. An' the closer we get t'Letheras, the more of them. Wha's in towns, Urb? Taverns. Bars. So, we're not takin' a straight, pre-dic-table route.
- We're invading Lether from tavern to tavern?
- Aye.

Steven Erikson

#4. My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

Georgina Chapman

#5. I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party ... this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

Edward Snowden

#6. Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

Criss Jami

#7. I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

Mal Peet

#8. Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified.

N.K. Jemisin

#9. Who all is in there? Speak up and be quick about it!' 'A Methodist and a son a bitch!

Charles Portis

#10. Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.

Teresa Of Avila

#11. For the optimal realization of our possibilities, we need to trust ourselves and we need to admire ourselves, and the trust and admiration need to be grounded in reality, not generated out of fantasy and self-delusion.

Nathaniel Branden

#12. If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

Xenophanes