Thomas Jefferson Agrarian Quotes & Sayings

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements. — Mao Zedong

Art lies by its own artifice. — Ovid

Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain,
Your flowers feed on carrion
so do your birds;
Men feed on each other because you taught them life was cheap,
Flowing from your endless womb without pain or understanding.
No midwife caresses your flesh or bathes clean your progeny,
Life spurts from you, little world,
and you regard it with disdain.
Only bruised men sense your cruelty,
men whose life has lost its meaning. — James Kavanaugh

If you go against growth, you go against yourself. How ready are we to face, accept and deal with the situations that comes to us unexpectedly in our partners. It takes a big heart to face situations but above all it takes simplicity, humility and self denial to show true love and care. — William Pious Akakpo

The great soul surrenders itself to fate. — Seneca The Elder

My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you're doing movies and stuff, you're a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, 'Sherri, you said what I feel.' That just means so much to me to know that I have that support. — Sherri Shepherd

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts. — Seneca The Younger

Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks! — A.E. Samaan

Light is impressionism. — Gae Aulenti

We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast. — Barton Seaver

Don: You know what makes this alright? We took every moment and wrung it out for all it was worth. Every second, every touch. Every share. My life would've been worthless without you, Edie. If I hadn't met you, it wouldn't've been worth being here. You're the greatest woman ever walked God's earth. No word of a lie. — Chris Chibnall

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880] — Max Beerbohm

Your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad — S. Ikom Afriani

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals — Anna Brownell Jameson

I love you more than I love life, because if it weren't for you, there wouldn't be as much in it for me. — Lisa De Jong