Katyn Quotes

#1. Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Josephine Tey

#2. Wanna dance?" he asked
"I guess you'll do. All the cute guys are already taken," I answered with a grin.
"You wound me with your callousness," he sighed dramatically, taking me in his arms.
"I do have a black belt in demolishing overstuffed egos.

Lani Woodland

#3. Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

Michael Specter

#4. We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Winston Churchill

#6. Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Paul Valery

#7. The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

Doug Henning

#8. Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Joseph Joubert

#9. The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border.

Robert Burns

#10. A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;

Michael Chabon

#11. Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

#12. The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

#13. Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve
or to corrupt
civilization, and are obliged to use them.

Storm Jameson

#14. I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Bill Peterson