Summit Salon Quotes & Sayings

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation. — John Quincy Adams

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day.
When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses. — Alan Watts

Got nothing to say now, huh? Figures. She snorted. Hearing voices was one thing, but talking back to them probably hiked her up to a whole new level of psychosis. Awesome. — Laura Kaye

[ ... ]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my - er - icy set-downs!(Alverstoke) — Georgette Heyer

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome. — Peter David

The are times when in mercy God must shatter our most cherished assumptions — Thomas Morton

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise. — Gregory David Roberts

28So let us be thankful, because we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken. We should worship God in a way that pleases him with respect and fear, 29because our God is like a fire that burns things up. — Max Lucado

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. — Quincy Jones

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. — Peter Marshall

After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing. — Daniel Handler

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents. — Gore Verbinski

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost. — Niklas Zennstrom

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return. — Chief Joseph