Idl Print Quotes & Sayings

Just as ancient tyrants gave the people bread and circuses, in exchanged for their loyalty, so visions can acquire a tyrannical sway over people's minds by offering them an exalted sense of themselves in exchange for their loyalty to the vision through all the vicissitudes of facts to the contrary. This self-exaltation can take on many forms on many issues.
Whether the particular issue is crime, automobile safety, income statistics, military defense, or overpopulation theories, the one consistency among them is that the conclusions reached exalt those who share the vision over the great unwashed who do not. — Thomas Sowell

I have so many friends who are designers of color. — Solange Knowles

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. — Maurice Sendak

Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see. — Mark Nepo

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. — Thomas A. Edison

Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had — Hans Christian Andersen

Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity. — Anonymous

A surface separates inside form out and belongs no less to one than the other. — Don DeLillo

He wanted desperately to stay, just a little while longer. But he couldn't be here, in this place, with her. It was calm here. She was innocent and beautiful and perfect.
He was not. He didn't want his mess or his mental illness or his past anywhere near her. He wanted to protect her from a lot of things, but most of all from himself. — Becky Wade

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action. — Francis Quarles

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way. — Murray Walker

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency. — James Bovard