Statehouses Portal Quotes & Sayings

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life. — Charles M. Blow

And the last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood-smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if once it creeps into the blood of a man, that man will at the last, forgetting all else, return to the hills to die. — Rudyard Kipling

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. — Michel De Montaigne

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard — John Bunyan

I might say things to piss you off, but that's just to piss you off. You know I love you, I'll just never love you the way you need to be loved. I'll love you in a way that's easy for me, I hope you adapt even though your feelings are getting deeper and I'm stuck in my ways. I almost changed but you caved in too soon now I'm back to my ways. "Wrong Love" from Crucified for 33 Thoughts — Jackson Saint-Louis

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art. — Eli Broad

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wizards don't like philosophy very much. As far as they are concerned, one hand clapping makes a noise like cl. — Terry Pratchett

Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement. — Voltairine De Cleyre

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too. — Bertolt Brecht