Portbury Port Quotes & Sayings

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls

Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority. — Marcy Kaptur

...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.

That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard. — Megan Abbott

Live your dream. Never stop dreaming. There are supernatural forces to support your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off. — Petter Stordalen

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers — Binye Vincent

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it. — Oliver Sacks

Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone. — Shannon L. Alder

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience. — James P. Carse

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die! — Jim Elliot

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater. — Joss Whedon

What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it. — Martin Buber

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for. — Stephen F. Lynch

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label. — Sasa Stanisic