Pizanias Rhodes Quotes & Sayings

The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum. — Joseph Smith Jr.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson

If only I could die right now, then I would never have to live without him, I would just be gone ... — Tarryn Fisher

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. — John Ruskin

I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment — Rafael Nadal

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life. — Brian Greene

One of the classic settings in fiction, a little world as reassuring as imperial St Petersburg or Victorian London, is suburban Connecticut in the 1950s. If you close your eyes, you can picture autumn leaves drifting down on quiet streets, you can see commuters in fedoras streaming off the platforms of the New Haven Line, you can hear the tinkle of the evening's first pitcher of martinis; and hear the ugly fights then, after midnight; and smell the desperate or despairing sex.
(Introduction to "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit") — Jonathan Franzen

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose! — Daniel H. Pink

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain. — Richard Wagner

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people. — Jamaica Kincaid

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably. — Mother Teresa

It's best to only exercise when the air conditioning is working properly outside. A strong wind ensures one doesn't sweat very much. — Bauvard

The point is that we all caught. And we try in one way or another to widen ourself free. For instance, me and Ludie. When I was with Ludie, I didn't feel so caught. But then Ludie died. We go around trying one thing or another, but we caught anyhow. — Carson McCullers

Will held up an inflatable male doll with a beer belly and a hairy chest, and waved its appendage at me that wasn't an arm or a leg. That image would stick with me. — Ashlan Thomas