Erikku Leaf Quotes & Sayings

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille

We all die, sweetheart. You've just got to live your life with enough meaning while you're still here to make it all worthwhile. — Steph Campbell

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Men and women that don't bother to notice things that are out of order are considered biomasses in God's sight. — Sunday Adelaja

I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I could feel. About the present, it was better to be stoical; about the future - such a future as mine - to be dead. — Charlotte Bronte

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have. — Frederik Pohl

Why must we all conceal
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside? — Christina Aguilera

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse. — Jack Kerouac

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us — Edward Bach

Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other about our opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives. Academic culture blesses this practice by insisting that the more abstract our speech, the more likely we are to touch the universal truths that unite us. But what happens is exactly the reverse: as our discourse becomes more abstract, the less connected we feel. There is less sense of community among intellectuals than in the most 'primitive' society of storytellers. Parker Palmer, AHW, 123 — Parker J. Palmer

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices. — Ronald H. Nash

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. — Grover Norquist