Tigers In Captivity Quotes & Sayings

The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of thought and belief a logical next step. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous. — Ellen Page

I know it's not very masculine to say the moon is beautiful ... but it is! — Darren Hayes

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. — Frances O'Grady

Obstacles are placed in our path to determine whether we really wanted something or just thought we did." Dr. Harold Smith — Suzie Grant

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. — Pico Iyer

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. — Martha Graham

It's not your fault, sir!" "Isn't it?" Jim sighed. "Maybe not, but it's my responsibility." "He shot you!" Jim laughed bitterly. "A good commander would have shot him first! — Taylor Anderson

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" . — John Boyne

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [ ... ] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness - in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture. — George Eliot

I put on some smooth jazz and change into a smooth silk lungi. — Sidin Vadukut

I have a fleeting fantasy of telling her that procreation isn't a contest, any more than SAT scores and making the cheerleading squad and getting into a good college and all the other things, both big and small, that she turned into a contest when Janie and I were young, going all the way back to whose baby teeth came in first, according to my mother. — Emily Giffin

In 1846 on of his Academy exhibits was a painting called The Angel Standing in the Sun. Turner found this passage for the Academy catalogue in the Book of Revelation:
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, both free and bond, both small and great.
To reinforce the note of voracious doom, he added two lines from Samuel Rogers' Voyage of Columbus:
The morning march that flashes to the sun;
The feast of vultures when the day is done. — Anthony Bailey