Defacing Monuments Quotes & Sayings

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. — Mary Shelley

People yearn to be in one of the best
a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club
any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups. — E. O. Wilson

Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back. — Les Aspin

I get so excited when I hear people saying their greater is coming. After all, I'm always telling everyone to find the positive. Yes, your greater is coming, but what are you doing to prepare for it? Are you putting in more time/hours? Are you getting professional help? Are you studying? Are you praying? Are you making room? Are you saving? Are you making positive changes? Or are you just sitting back waiting for this greater? Greater can only be achieved by faith AND works. — J'son M. Lee

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is. — Aristotle.

People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything. — Chandan Sharma

The word of God protects the soul, it deepens the roots of faith and it softens the hearts of His people. — Euginia Herlihy

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis. — Sidney Altman

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. — Julian Bond

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay. — Ann Rule

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong? — Rush Limbaugh