Laterza Wedding Quotes & Sayings

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you. — Frederick Lenz

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words
"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"
words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way? — Jennifer Egan

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren

If shame had a sound, it would sound like an agonizing scream, but unfortunately it's a silent emotion. One I've been hiding from for years. — B.N. Toler

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it. — James Madison

Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day. — Gary Barlow

One never need leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes - I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. — Frank O'Hara

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States. — Benigno Aquino III