Labrousse Rd Quotes & Sayings

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them. — Bertrand Russell

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep. — G.K. Chesterton

For man seeks not so much God as the miraculous — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He knew that all of them were shadows: the chanters, the dead, the living. All shadows, moving across this landscape of mountains and valleys, changing the pattern of things as they moved but leaving nothing changed when they left. Only the shadows themselves could change. — Karl Marlantes

In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back. — Rolonda Watts

23 RETURN TO LEOCH — Diana Gabaldon

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all BEGIN freely
a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a women had better show MORE affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on. — Jane Austen

...only extroverts cry twice.. — John Fowles

The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way. — Frederick Lenz

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth. — Katherine Applegate

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. — John Dewey

May the suffering of all beings be pacified. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche