Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I object to violence because, while it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.ÔÇØ
Ghandi


ÔÇ£Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need.ÔÇØ
Judy Blume

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.ÔÇØ
John Kenneth Galbraith

ÔÇ£Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are educated, you will not ask for power, you will take it.ÔÇØ
John Henrik Clarke

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?ÔÇØ

ÔÇò Tennessee Williams.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

ÔÇò Tennessee Williams.

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Turkish church, by the Potestant church, or by any other church that I know of. My mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify & enslave mankind, & monopolise power & profit.ÔÇØ
Thomas Paine

ÔÇ£The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.ÔÇØ
Plato

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.ÔÇØ
Aldous Huxley

ÔÇ£We are in the golden age of music. There will come a time when technology becomes so advanced that we'll rely on them to make music rather than raw talent. Music will lose its soul.ÔÇØ
Freddie Mercury

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£The heart has its own language.The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.ÔÇØ
Rumi



One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots.Ten thousand idiots are a political party.ÔÇØ
Franz Kafka

[zqwerty]

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.ÔÇØ

Patrick Rothfuss

[zqwerty]

Geoffrey Chaucer : ÔÇ£Time and Tide wait for no manÔÇØ

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.ÔÇØ
Christine Caine

ÔÇ£It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they coud bear to live with.ÔÇØ
Anais Nin

[zqwerty]

ÔÇ£O great creator of being

Grant us one more hour to perform our art

and perfect our livesÔÇØ

Jim Morrison of the Doors

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes...including you.ÔÇØ
Anne Lamott

ÔÇ£When a nation is psychologically & spiritually empty, totalitarianism comes in to fill the vacuum ; & the people sell their freedom as a neccessity for getting rid of the anxiety which is too great to bear any longer.ÔÇØ
Rollo May

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Old age has come at a terrible time. Just as I was starting to know it all, now I'm forgetting everything I knew.ÔÇØ
Anon

ÔÇ£Rest, nature, books, music such is my idea of happiness.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[zqwerty]

The Theory of Trickledown or Reaganomics

   

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£We can only know that we know nothing. And that is highest degree of human wisdom.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same neccessity of loving serves to counteract their grief & heals them.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£Rummaging in our soul, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share it.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£The two most powerful warriors are patience & time.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[zqwerty]

Said by Golda Meir, one of Israel's early leaders, which might have been said yesterday.

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children," she said. "But we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children."

   

[Lilith7]

ÔÇ£A man live & be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling that the artist has experienced.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

I sit on a man's back,choking him & making him carry me, & yet assure myself & others that I am very sorry for him & wish to ease his lot by all possible means ÔÇô except by getting off his back.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy

ÔÇ£Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.ÔÇØ
Leo Tolstoy