Vates Quotes & Sayings

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. — Carlos Ghosn

History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists. — Keith Thompson

The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards. — Hilary Mantel

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state — Karl Marx

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts. — Jacques Maritain

It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change. — Hudson Taylor

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee. — Jaime Pressly

my most desperate moments, I have never conceived of anything more horrible than a law office." -Marcel Proust — Petula Parker