Unraised Quotes & Sayings

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object. — William Shakespeare

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design ... fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map. — Edward Tufte

What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more. — Sharron Angle

Heal her," Broc said, his voice low and menacing. "You cannot allow Anice to die when you have the magic to help her." "She's beyond my magic. She's gone." Broc hugged Anice to him. "You failed her, Sonya! — Donna Grant

Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings — Rumi

The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey. — Charles Dickens

Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowing in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them radicals or Communists. You must open your hearts to the poor and downtrodden, instead of driving them further into poverty and servitude. There's not much time left. If you don't change, you're doomed. — John Perkins

The student of politics must study the soul. — Aristotle.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds. — Laurie A. Helgoe

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda