Decumanus Green Quotes & Sayings

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center. — Edward Brooke

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. — Gore Vidal

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. — Peter Ustinov

As Newman struggled free of parental domination, he achieved a less constricted morality and became more comfortable with himself. In that greater comfort, he moved toward a greater comfort with, and willingness to be responsible for, others. None of the great psychologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Freud and William James, had had anything to say about adult maturational processes like this. But over the decades, we at the Grant Study have watched fascinated as Adam Newman and his fellows changed and grew. — George E. Vaillant

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year. — River Phoenix

Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul. — Parker J. Palmer

The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot

My knowledge is mine to use as I see fit. But I'm way too out of shape to see fit. — Jarod Kintz

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done! — Paul Auster

Night of limitless possibility expired, of a life forfeited, of a foreclosed — Joshua Ferris

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. — Garry Hynes

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it. — Spike Milligan

The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.
Elwin Stark — John Connolly

His mother was exacting revenge because he'd dared to marry me, and his father - well, we weren't exactly sure. Either — Sara Gruen