Butaca 66 Quotes & Sayings

The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea. — William O. Douglas

Unsentimental and heartless aren't the same. — A.M. Dellamonica

We have plenty of room for people ... in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be. — Suzanne LaFleur

I shall always be a priest of love. — D.H. Lawrence

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. — Joan Didion

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life. — Michael Meade

There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it. — Richard Preston

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him. — Tammara Webber