Presence Quote by Paul Roland

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

— Emile M. Cioran

“If trailing along with me is boring you,” she said, “you could go check on Books and Maldynado in the real estate office.” He…

— Lindsay Buroker

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew…

— Vincent de Paul

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something…

— Samuel Johnson

If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I…

— Robertson Davies

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply…

— Mark Twain

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their…

— Salman Rushdie

My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are…

— Paul Tudor Jones

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

— James Fallows

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic…

— Mark Twain

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

— Lawrence Durrell

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

— Jeremy Corbyn