Branchlet With Alternate Quotes & Sayings

The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist. — James Forrestal

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women. — Natalie Portman

The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society. — John Mark Reynolds

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. — William S. Burroughs

It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature. — John Boyne

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa

Ozzie Boone ... insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow.
By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries. — Dean Koontz

The tragedy of sin is that it diverts gifts. The person who has a genuine capacity for loving becomes promiscuous, maybe sexually, or maybe by becoming frivolous and fickle, afraid to make a commitment to anyone or anything. The person with a gift for passionate intensity squanders it in angry tirades and, given power, becomes a demagogue. — Kathleen Norris

Life doesn't come with a guarantee that things will always be good. - George Cole — Dannika Dark

To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted. — Jo Coudert

(in Wisconsin, Republicans have legislated photo IDs while shutting DMV offices in areas where Democratic constituencies live and lengthening their hours of operation in GOP-dominated ones); — Anonymous

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. — Nicolaus Copernicus

No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it. — Stewart Stafford

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person — Jodi Picoult

What if all the transcendent moments of your life, the sound-track moments, the radiant detail, the gleaming thing at the center of life that loves you, that loves beauty - God or whatever you call it - what if all this were part of your illness? — Sarah Cornwell