Fitzclarence Family Portrait Quotes & Sayings

This particular May morning begins with the appearance of a procession on the corner of Pancake and Rosa Luxemburg Streets. The procession is evidently religious: it consists of eight clerical personages, well known to the entire town. But instead of censers, the clerical personages are swinging brooms, which transfers the entire action from the plane of religion to the plane of revolution. These personages are now simply unproductive elements of society performing their labor duty for the benefit of the people. Instead of prayers, golden clouds of dust rise to the heavens. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? — Sam Ervin

Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium. — Augusten Burroughs

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible. — Sam Keen

Write something simple like water, it will have the power to change you and the world. — Debasish Mridha

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it ... holy if only ... we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt. — Helen Keller

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. — Tom Allen

There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma. — Gautama Buddha

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. — Austin Kleon

God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day. — Louie Giglio

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. — Will Durant