Firelei Quotes & Sayings

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free. — Jerrold Nadler

Say you're sorry. I don't like people who don't know how to say they're sorry. — Anonymous

What religious Americans might have been slow to realize is that the ACLU's long march through the institutions of America has culminated at the door of Obama's White House. Behind that door stands the one we have "been waiting for," as liberals chanted about Obama in 2008. Obama is the fulfillment of the ACLU's messianic secularist hopes. No president has done more to empty the public square of Christians than Barack Obama. To the delight of secularists, Obama has been stacking the federal courts with ACLU-style judges who read the First Amendment through an ahistorical and atheistic prism, or as they like to call it, the "living Constitution," which is nothing more than a euphemism for whatever they think the Constitution should mean in our supposedly enlightened times. — Phyllis Schlafly

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate. — Vincent Frank

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies. — Sofia Coppola

This is God's curse on slavery! - a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing! - a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours, - I always felt it was, - I always thought so when I was a girl, - I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over, - I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruction, I could make the condition of mine better than freedom - fool that I was! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet. — Francois Fenelon

As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year. — Domhnall Gleeson

dark-gray cylinder, — Nicholson Baker