Periclean Monuments Quotes & Sayings

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position. — Ezra Taft Benson

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen. — Ronnie Apteker

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. — Philip Pullman

This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed. — Flannery O'Connor

It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation. (71-71) — Don Jordan

For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star. — Jean-Marie Lustiger

I've grown up alongside Corr. My father rode him and my father lost him, and then I found him again. He's the only family I have. — Maggie Stiefvater