Lxxvii Quotes & Sayings

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government ... can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people. — George Washington

As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door ... — Dana Gould

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away ... — Nelly Furtado

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party. — Bernie Sanders

If I want more than sex from this girl, I'll have to fight for it. And I've never lost a fight. — Kelley R. Martin

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience. — Rajneesh

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation. — Brandon Sanderson

We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild
yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means. — J.I. Packer

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. — Bela Bartok

Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery. — Dodie Smith

Apparently my dad wasn't the only paranoid libertarian in Chesterton. — Anonymous

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here ... in the Southwest ... I still live in New Mexico. — Rudolfo Anaya

He just saw her for what she was. She was no good. Some women,' she said, her chest heaving beneath the shapeless raincoat, 'aren't. — Robert Galbraith

The truth that you live one day at a time didn't help: What was I supposed to do with that day? — Paul Kalanithi