Two Treatises Of Government Famous Quotes & Sayings

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one. — Jean De La Bruyere

We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it. — Emma Donoghue

A poor person feeding another poor! And this is the ultimate generosity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered. — Bob Shacochis

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. — David Swing

When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel? — Karen Marie Moning

I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love? — Meg Cabot

I am not a morning person. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. — Jim Rohn