Contemporaneous Documentation Quotes & Sayings

Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

People as a whole see a limited scope of the world, chained to their notions, often misguided notions, of what truth is. Seeking something more, I would argue, is the very act of unchaining oneself from the cave wall. — Elizabeth Finn

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out. — Francis Beaumont

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins. — George Clooney

The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us who believe not only have we not lost, but we're winning. — Joe Lieberman

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. — John Steinbeck

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. — Rudolf Rocker

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here. — Henry Rollins