Archive Xanga Quotes & Sayings

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. — Helen Fisher

Popular applause veers with the wind. — John Bright

He loved the flaws; they were invariably the most interesting parts of people's faces and bodies, the parts that held the straightest lines, the most beautiful shadows. Wounds and deformities and cracks and boils and stomachs: this was the stuff that moved Engales. Usually while he detailed the broken nose or sketched a lumpy body he felt as if he was zeroing in on what it meant to be alive. He could hear his father saying: The scratches are what makes a life. — Molly Prentiss

37. That counsel I tenth, that thou trust never oath of an outlaw's son; — Anonymous

The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful. — Theodore Roosevelt

The business of the country is business. — Calvin Coolidge

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. — George Carlin

Being captured is beside the point
the point is not to surrender — Nazim Hikmet