Ranchos Friendswood Quotes & Sayings

O brain, be flowers that nightingales may come to sing! — Nikos Kazantzakis

I believed that 'freedom' is not a clear or sufficient answer to the question of what conservatives believe in. Like Matthew Arnold, I held that 'freedom is a very good horse to ride, but to ride somewhere'. — Roger Scruton

What are you supposed to do when you forget what normal feels like? — Amy Reed

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. — Ralph Waldo Trine

He had no illusions about the dangerousness of his mission. He spent the first year meeting with different chiefs of gangs in New York, laying the groundwork, sounding them out, proposing spheres of influence that would be honored by a loosely bound confederated council. But there were too many factions, too many special interests that conflicted. Agreement was impossible. Like other great rulers and lawgivers in history Don Corleone decided that order and peace were impossible until the number of reigning states had been reduced to a manageable number. — Mario Puzo