Upara Material Quotes

#1. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!

Laura M. Brotherson

#3. If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

Randal Marlin

#4. Archie.'
'Yes, sir.'
'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?'
'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead.

Rex Stout

#5. I'm not sure that secret goat-farming is the most effective show of defiance.

Francesca Haig

#6. Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Ronald Reagan

#7. I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

Lionel Hampton

#8. Men respect standards- get some!

Steve Harvey

#9. I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

Edward Hirsch

#10. Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

Terry Pratchett

#11. The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach