Twice The Spice Quotes & Sayings

Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions. — Max Anders

Aristotle believed democracy could exist only because of slavery, which gave citizens the leisure for higher pursuits. (Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.) — Tom Reiss

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. — Martin Rees

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all. — Winston S. Churchill

Let any gay and hopeful thing happen to a man, and some chicken goes howling to the block. — John Steinbeck

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure. — Ron Paul

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. — Kurt Vonnegut

When I looked upon the surface of the gently flowing water, each painting that I had burned upon joining the church rose from the waves. I tried to grab them, but they dissolved upon touch. — William Poe