Ensiling Quotes & Sayings

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. — Cornel West

Reading is the staff of life! — Roger Bonner

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence. — Sharon Stone

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat — Kiersten White

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. — Xenophon

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be. — Miriam Makeba

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic. — Michael D. Higgins

Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one's contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; about reflecting on the ravages - and injustices - of time; and of realizing, perhaps, how strange and random are the twists and turns of fate. — Alexander McCall Smith

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you. — Jamie Oliver

Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country, and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable. — Richard Engel

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party. — Bertrand Russell

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be. — Margaret Mead

If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment. — John Zanetti

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own. — Whipplesnaith

My capacity for vanishing into whatever shadows happen to be around is a hard-won and precious skill. — John Darnielle