1811 Earthquake Quotes & Sayings

Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se. — Jim Wright

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside — George Orwell

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't. — Brad Pitt

Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn't. He doesn't learn things by asking questions ... He learns by watching. — Ally Condie

We live in our myths, we only endure reality. — Robert Anton Wilson

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." — Corrie Ten Boom

Out of the darkness comes light like a flash
You think you can, you think you can
Sometimes that is the problem
Dream little darling dream — Dave Matthews

The short story narrates the moment when a dark door, long closed, is opened, when a forgotten error is unwittingly repeated, when the fabric of a life is revealed to have been woven from frail and dubious fiber over top of something unknowable and possibly very bad. — Michael Chabon