Parfitt Cresswell Quotes & Sayings

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man - his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement. — Bernard Bailyn

Look outside of what is possible and think about what could be. — Dillon Foley

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. — Theodore Roosevelt

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men. — William Allingham

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. — Adam Smith

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates. — Li Keqiang

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. — Linus Torvalds

When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of all the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair. — Orhan Pamuk

I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes — Steven Wilson

Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating. — Kris Kristofferson