Pietas Roman Quotes & Sayings

The wife of a junior officer cooped up in a horrible canvas partition in steerage for five months wrote:
"I had enjoyed much peace there in the absence of every comfort, even of such as are now enjoyed in jail. I used to say that there were four privations in my situation - fire, water, earth and air. No fire to warm oneself on the coldest day, no water to drink but what was tainted, no earth to set the foot on, and scarcely any air to breathe. Yet, with all these miserable circumstances, we spent many a happy hour by candlelight in that wretched cabin whilst I sewed and he read the Bible to me. — Stephen Taylor

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy. — C.S. Lewis

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession. — Benjamin Franklin

How could a monster love anything but destruction? — Megan Shepherd

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. — Alicia Keys

I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to. — Oprah Winfrey

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best. — Rik Mayall

Culture is worth a little risk, — Norman Mailer

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. — Kathy Acker

The law was designed to save, not to destroy. — John Steinbeck

I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed. — Pansy Ho

Grief dares us to love once more. — Terry Tempest Williams

Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it." Gazing — Dean Koontz