Silver Threads Golden Quotes & Sayings

What we have," Robert tells us, "is not democracy. It is imitative democracy. We have all the external signs. We have elections. We have a parliament. We have legislation. All the accessories of democracy. But anyone with common sense here knows we live in an authoritarian state. Putin has learned that if he offers the accessories of democracy, his regime can be very hard to accuse. The regime does one thing very well: It doesn't listen. So there can be free speech, channels of communication. But normally in a democracy, those voices affect decision making. In this country that doesn't happen. — David Greene

Heaven is beyond our imagination ... At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity. — Max Lucado

New York City has the most beautiful women. — Jason Mraz

Education is the art of making man ethical — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years? — Gary Gygax

Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort. — Amos Oz

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear. — Jessica Lange

In the past, I walk between green lawns, surrounded by golden stone.
In the past, I am brilliant and I am happy and my every tomorrow is madness.
In the past, words shimmer around me on silver threads and I pluck them like summer peaches.
In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. I am the axis of the world.
In the past, I am soaring, and falling, and breaking, and lost. — Alexis Hall

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically. — Truman Capote