Defensor Fortis Quotes & Sayings

Basketball is a pure invention, — James Naismith

Women, "the softer sex", are expected to bare this emotional performance yet accept the fact it is undervalued, both classified as an intrinsic skill that accompanies living whilst female, and the belief that it cannot be taught formally, so is less valuable — Dawn Foster

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment. — Anne Waldman

Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps. — David Quammen

I think, again, on issues of energy, how are we going to fully utilize our energy resources in this country? What is the role of the federal government in higher education? What kind of justices would you appoint to the Supreme Court, not just because we have a vacancy now, but at least one or two potentially in the next four to eight years? — Marco Rubio

Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. — Shimon Peres

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. — Bernard Of Clairvaux