Quotes · Skopia

13 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Quebec✕clear

My country is not a country, it is winter.

Gilles Vigneault

Mon Pays · 1964

★ 1.0

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

1967

★ 1.1

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

1969

★ 1.8

Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows.

Everybody Knows · 1988

★ 1.8

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

The Favourite Game · 1963

★ 3.5

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

The Favourite Game · 1963

★ 3.5

Song · Folk music

Now, maybe there's a God above As for me all I've ever learned from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah · 1984

★ 3.5

I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.

Observer · 1993

★ 3.5

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

2003

★ 3.5

Believe it or not-and I know that most people do not-violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined · 2011

★ 3.5

Leadership means making people feel good.

1984

★ 3.6

Song · Folk music

There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in

Anthem · 1992

★ 3.7

Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.

1969

★ 4.3