Florilegio Quotes & Sayings

To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist. — Nhat Hanh

Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn't understand him. She didn't understand that he was cursed. And, selfish as he was, he'd rather she hate him than he hate himself any more than he was already going to. Any more than he already did. — V.S. Carnes

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. — Klaus Fuchs

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose. — John Rawls

My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important. — Viola Davis

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel. — J.G. Holland

There is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture. — Benjamin Graham

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. — William Hazlitt

Unbridled commerce isn't generally pretty, but it's always forward-thinking. — Richard Ford