Hochstein Halloween Quotes & Sayings

Why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way ... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. — Pablo Picasso

I'm the dark secret that he can't keep hidden - his crossed fingers - his hold-my-breath-to-keep-from-feeling. But I make him feel everything. — Amy A. Bartol

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. — Edmund Burke

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours. — Albert Schweitzer

For a moment Bramblestar thought that he could see Firestar and Dustpelt weaving around the two new-made elders, the four cats united again. But before he could be certain, the image faded. — Erin Hunter

Everything happens for a reason. I believe in this at the highest level. — Mpho Koaho

He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it? — John Goode

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. — Victor Hugo

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart. — Tarryn Fisher

Oh, I simply can't think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is — Doris Lessing