Initially Yours Jefferson Quotes & Sayings

Religion in America ... Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it ... I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. — Salma Hayek

People aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun ... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about. — Melina Marchetta

Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps. Individuals play for time. — Gregory Maguire

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. — Dean Koontz

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning. — Roger McDonald

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does. — Richard Dawkins

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor — T.Q. Bernier

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough. — Matt Busby

I'm a heartless man at worst, babe and a helpless one at best — Paolo Nutini

People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks. — Etta James

I like to do things that you need to chip away at. — Anthony Pratt

Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the footlamps. Bears that dance, bears that don't. — Cormac McCarthy