The Guardian Angel's Journal Quotes & Sayings

Men do not trip over mountains: They fall over earth mounds. — Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The question of what is deserved should rarely, if ever, be asked. Asking it leads to deadly judgement, and acts of unmitigated evil. Atrocity revisited in the name of justice breeds its own atrocity. — Steven Erikson

We must learn to succeed in conditions of low fuel and energy prices — Dmitry Medvedev

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me. — Viktor Yanukovych

What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies. — Katie Featherston

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The body politic: the slow agonizing death of demarcation & the quick Caesarian section birth of chaos. — Dean Cavanagh

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. — Henry Charles Carey

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. — Anonymous

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing. — Jules Michelet

Somehow I slogged through the gray soup of the rest of the day and made it all the way home to Rita's at the end of the day, where the soup gelled into an aspic of sensory deprivation. — Jeff Lindsay

Beneath and around the dead and ruined chaparral rise the most amazingly beautiful flowers. Tulips and wind poppies and flame poppies, whispering bells and suncups. These are flowers that grow only after a burn. Only in a land once dead. You never see them otherwise

When my eyes closed I can see those flowers now. They are a promise: that the land will regrow, that even after a disaster life continues, that wonders abound. k — Frances Wood

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right. — Hillary Clinton