Unimpaired Def Quotes

#1. If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union ... it would be a big mistake

Meles Zenawi

#2. I believe you vere an alcoholic, Sir Samuel."
"No," said Vimes, completely taken aback, "I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to
be an alcoholic.

Terry Pratchett

#3. When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

Laozi

#4. With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.

Thomas Browne

#5. The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course.

Carol Shields

#6. People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

#7. When I write I am not just creating a story, but I am breathing life into each character.

S.R. Mitchell

#8. Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

David Bohm

#9. With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.

Gilbert Gottfried

#10. Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ...

Frontinus

#11. I have a totally unhealthy and unrealistic fear of being eaten by a great white shark. This is because I belong to a very specific demographic called American Child Whose Parents Made the Ill-Advised Decision To Allow Her To Watch the Movie Jaws At a Sleepover During Her Formative Years.

Elle Lothlorien

#12. Do not forget that true love sets no conditions; it does not calculate or complain, but simply loves.

Pope John Paul II

#13. For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

Duke Robillard

#14. We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

Charles Vest

#15. From this point of view, the only time we ever know what's really going on is when the rug's been pulled out and we can't find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep.

Pema Chodron