Blout Paving Quotes & Sayings

At some point the Indian Act system will go. But that will be the result of a broad conversation involving Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals over how to settle the outstanding treaty, land and other issues. This won't necessarily require a protracted debate. What it will require is that Canadians engage in the conversation instead of sitting back as if it doesn't concern them. We have to be involved because what is needed is a serious transfer of responsibility and money, the exact opposite of dragging out treaty negotiations one by one. We need to do more than empower our governments to act. We need to push them. We need to make this a make-or-break issue. We need to elect or defeat them with these indigenous issues in mind. — John Ralston Saul

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. — Hosea Ballou

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life. — Elizabeth Taylor

Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts. — Paul Auster

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state. — Thomas Jefferson

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government. — Margaret Chase Smith

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. — Barbara Kingsolver

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26. — Jimmy Carr

I am empowered by every problem to seek the power of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For such a worldly, surly bastard, Bas had always been incredibly innocent. Always seen the best in people. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't care how high my shrink increases my Lexapro dosage - I WANT TO BE A ROBOT THAT HELPS WOLVES HAVE SEX. Otherwise my parents threw away the money they spent on my college education. — Patton Oswalt

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace. — Rebecca Solnit

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world. — Ziggy Marley

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite. — Yann Martel

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data. — Timothy Gowers