Ljust Quotes & Sayings

He had heard especially promising things about Philadelphia
the lively capital of that young nation. It was said to be a city with a good-enough shipping port, central to the eastern coast of the country, filled with pragmatic Quakers, pharmacists, and hardworking farmers. It was rumored to be a place without haughty aristocrats (unlike Boston), and without pleasure-fearing puritans (unlike Connecticut), and without troublesome self-minted feudal princes (unlike Virginia). The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn
a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas. Everyone was welcome in Philadelphia, absolutely everyone
except, of course, the Jews. Hearing all this, Henry suspected Philadelphia to be a vast landscape of unrealized profits, and he aimed to turn the place to his advantage. — Elizabeth Gilbert

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names. — Marina Tsvetaeva

Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile. — Ed Rendell

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race. — Oscar Pistorius

I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel. — John Dingell

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. — Sigmund Freud

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear. — Stanley Hauerwas

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God. — Max Anders

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel. — Kenneth Oppel

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

Time has one immortal desire: to carry on. — Matshona Dhliwayo