Flagpole Lights Quotes & Sayings

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. — Joseph Addison

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. — Thomas Paine

Ten minutes, good, past eleven." "My blood!" ejaculated the vexed coachman, "and not atop of Shooter's yet! Tst! Yah! Get on with you!" The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed — Charles Dickens

Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner. — Ada Yonath

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. — Ben Shahn

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit. — Thomas Jefferson

He that hath lands hath quarrells. — George Herbert

We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country. — Edward James Olmos

Feeling one "has"; love occurs. — Martin Buber

Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant. — Robin Hobb

We are what gives the demons and angels purpose. — Skins

Young feminists are a thrilling phenomenon: smart, bold, funny defenders of rights and claimers of space - and changers of the conversation. — Rebecca Solnit

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story. — Cary Fukunaga

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison — Greg Crabtree