Lacave Salon Quotes & Sayings

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them. — William Graham Sumner

It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another. — Joel Parkinson

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow. — Ethel Waters

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. — H.L. Mencken

Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good and making so much money - or so little, they are no longer good for themselves. — John Muir

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle. — Blaise Cendrars

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human — Reinhold Niebuhr

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. — Nelson Mandela

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed. — Saint Augustine

The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain. — Kevin DeYoung

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become. — Robin Jones Gunn

The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured. — Charles Osgood