Tayberries For Sale Quotes & Sayings

Yet, whatever form it takes, the belief that individual freedom exists only when the state is frail misunderstands the source of liberty. The state can be more or less effective in the pursuit of its goals - it can be stupid or smart - and it can be used for illiberal, totalitarian ends. But ultimately a healthy state dedicated to the public interest makes individual freedom possible. This is the paradox of individualism. The individual freedom that citizens of liberal societies rightly cherish, even our very concept of the individual, is impossible without a robust state. Modern individualism depends on the existence of vigorous and effective government dedicated to the public interest, to policies that a majority of citizens would support without regard to their particular position in society at any given moment. It depends as well on the willingness of individual citizens to imagine themselves as members of a common public whose interests the state regularly vindicates. — Mark S. Weiner

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. — Jodi Picoult

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry

It seems that the days of public modesty and concern about how we look are far from us. I will not say they are gone forever, in culture nothing is forever. — John Patrick Hickey

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; — Walter Raleigh

The Bhagavad Gita
that ancient Indian Yogic text
says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. — Neal Shusterman

Everything that is,casts a shadow — Neil Gaiman

Experts are just trained dogs. — Albert Einstein