Chiastic Quotes & Sayings

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator. — Lajos Kossuth

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision
and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness,
more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort.
An Augean stable of metallic filth. — D.H. Lawrence

It's better to live in hell with the wise than in heaven with the wicked. — Debasish Mridha

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously. — Hermann Hesse

A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government. — Tim O'Reilly

There's nothing like the gift of understanding. — A.D. Posey

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties. — Yelena Baturina

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks ... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now. — Beeban Kidron

Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected. — Dan Auerbach

threw me off guard." The chief's eyes crinkled — Ellery Adams

Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!! — Charlaine Harris

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. — Alfred North Whitehead

Regardfulness is the minimum expression of decency. — Eraldo Banovac