1812 The Point Quotes & Sayings

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later. — Frank Stella

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. — Ira Progoff

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. — Jon Voight

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them. — E.L. Doctorow

You and me, Tina. It's gonna happen." I gasp softly. He smiles and continues on a whisper, "Mark my words, baby. — Belle Aurora

There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very discovering of it. It is an ongoing experience of growth that involves a deepening contact with reality. To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. The meaning of life is indeed objective when it is reached, but the way to it is by a path of subjectivities ... The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person. — Ira Progoff

You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it. — Jodi Picoult