Pope Boniface Viii Dante Inferno Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes a person can find theirself lost in the barren deserts of life. The only way out of these deserts is to stay ... positive. They can wander through them for a day or forty Years ... It's completely their choice. — Timothy Pina

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. — Jane Smiley

Democracy is a luxury enjoyed by simple low-population societies, though wealth can maintain it for longer than its natural span. However, societies grow in population and complexity, the technological apparatus of control improves, individual freedoms impinge upon others until they demand "action" from government that is generally eager to comply and accrue more power to itself, and democracy gradually sickens and dies. — Neal Asher

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him. — Yaqub Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi

Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination. — Tim Dorsey

It seems you want me at your mercy, Princess. The question is why?
No, the question is, do I? — Meg Hennessy

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way. — Gary Numan

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've definitely stolen a lot of things. — Big Sean

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft. — Patrick Leahy

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind. — Henry David Thoreau