Houshang Seradge Quotes

#1. ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.

Marnie Stern

#3. Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

Niger Innis

#4. Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

Michael Beckwith

#5. Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don't understand the reason, that doesn't mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#7. If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.

Marc Kielburger

#8. Father McNamee would have said Brother Andre had faith
he just believed more than other people. And I wondered if faith were not a form of pretending.

Matthew Quick

#9. You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils
censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic
the women in Scotland have twice
thrice their freedom, with all their virtue
and are very conversable and agreeable
their educations are more finished.

Fanny Burney

#10. Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

Dean Koontz

#11. An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#12. Oh no. I got a customer service person from another country.

Jon Jones

#13. Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

Jack Wagner

#14. It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Siouxsie Sioux

#15. Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

William Hazlitt