Poem 967 Quotes & Sayings

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee. — Raymond Chandler

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign, — William F. Buckley Jr.

I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our job and making a buck - important though those things are. Arts programming isn't some sort of add-on or ornamental luxury. — Simon Schama

My desolation does begin to make a better life. — William Shakespeare

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. — Emily Dickinson

Pain - expands the Time - / Ages coil within / The minute Circumference / Of a single Brain - / Pain contracts - the Time - / Occupied with Shot / Gamuts of Eternities / Are as they were not - — Emily Dickinson

I don't go home and pretend I'm August rather than just the actual lines I'm saying in the film. If you do it that way, it makes it more natural and second nature. After awhile you get used to it and there's so much, especially being in New York to film; you're always surrounded by American people. — Freddie Highmore

What it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold. — Nadine Gordimer

Women are considered of no value, unless they continually increase their owner's stock. They are put on a par with animals. This same master shot a woman through the head, who had run away and been brought back to him. No one called him to account for it. If a slave resisted being whipped, the bloodhounds were unpacked, and set upon him, to tear his flesh from his bones. The master who did these things was highly educated, and styled a perfect gentleman. He also boasted the name and standing of a Christian, though Satan never had a truer follower. I — Harriet Jacobs

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind. — Mia Couto

In silence we are loving and kind; in a crowd we become blind. — Debasish Mridha

Remember: You're not alone. — Judith Warner

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded. — Nelson Algren