Memos Examples Quotes & Sayings

The only laws are paradox, humor and change. — Dan Millman

When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope. — Fuminori Nakamura

I have learned to fail. And I have had my say. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Every revolution believes it can return something that has been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that edures are people. — Alex London

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. — Serge Lang

How could you be heartbroken and happy at the same time? — Cassandra Clare

Have character, but don't be a character. — Richard Marcinko

The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art. — Vladimir Nabokov

I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone. — Stephanie Danler

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought. — George Soros

On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam

Well I have and in fact
more than one and I'll
tell you this too

I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against

Korea and another
against the one
I was in

and I don't remember
how many against
the three

when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan county

and not one
breath was restored
to one

shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not

one
but death went on and on
never looking aside

except now and then like a child
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing. — Hayden Carruth

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. — Michele Bachmann