Trobriand Islanders Quotes

#1. Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning to understand, what those who are tempted by the Brexit are going to reflect upon.

Francois Hollande

#2. I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.

Charles Barkley

#3. We would never comment on private correspondence.

Prince Charles

#4. You find out the true character of a person when they don't take advantage of a sure thing.

Alison G. Bailey

#5. The snow has quietness in it; no songs,
no smells, no shouts or traffic.
When I speak
my own voice shocks me.

Anne Sexton

#6. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

Gary Chapman

#7. Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

Julia Cameron

#9. Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Susan Sontag

#10. None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Idries Shah