Ilgateways Quotes & Sayings

I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for? — James Baldwin

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality - its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those who are the least able to bear it. In other words, the communities that have the most difficult problem, like Detroit, would be the communities that would have to bear the heaviest of the burdens. And so the State should step in to equalize the burden by providing for a large portion of the care of the victims of poverty and by providing assistance and guidance for local communities. Above and beyond that duty of the States the national Government has a responsibility. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The smaller the unit of government and the more restricted the functions assigned government, the less likely it is that its actions will reflect special interests rather than the general interest. — Milton Friedman

I come home from work, and depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate or play guitar or watch some 'Monty Python.' — Brent Sexton

It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood.
The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss. — Patrick Rothfuss

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future. — Thomas Berry

I'm analog, Wall of Sound, old school to the core, and it's time to let my B side play. — Kirstin Cronn-Mills

What's he doing?" Bethany asked. "He's bowing.'Good day milday." Bethany giggled. "Crocodiles don't bow."
"They should when they meet a princess. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. — Bernard Berenson

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

It was a cruel and lawless place without him, and it seems to me that it's better with him, if anything. A bad horse needs a big whip, as the saying goes. — Gene Wolfe

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring. — Justina Chen Headley

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married. — Ted Olson