Concordances Names Quotes & Sayings

Where there is authority, there is no freedom. — Peter Kropotkin

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. — Mose Allison

The world snapped open.
The world snapped shut. — Dawn Metcalf

It is not your beautiful face or soft skin that kills me; it is your simplicity and being you. — M.F. Moonzajer

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. — Sir Fulke Greville

Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things. — Atul Gawande

We had fancied our task would be different, only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustomed ourselves to it. We learned in fact that some of these things were necessary, but the rest merely show. Soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions. — Erich Maria Remarque

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others. — George Mason

It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments. — Richard Overy

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty. — Richard Brookhiser

I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it. — Greg Wise

A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward
one inevitable conclusion — E.J. Patten