Tlbb Quotes & Sayings

The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly. — Antonin Scalia

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. — Chuck Palahniuk

We've got to learn how to stay out of triple plays. — Casey Stengel

The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. — Iain M. Banks

The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets. — Nancy Brinker

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe. — Bob Dylan

At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it - after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, say, the October Revolution is no longer the same historical event: it is (from the triumphant liberal-capitalist view) no longer the beginning of a new progressive epoch in the history of humanity, but the beginning of a catastrophic swerving off-course of history which reached its end in 1991. — Anonymous

All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood. — David Tennant

Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake. — Santosh Kalwar

There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony. — John Muir

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse. — Phil Elvrum

They're called "better halves" for a reason, I guess. You can't have one half that's worse than you. It'd be a disaster. — Skyla Madi

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it. — Fulton J. Sheen