Venustas Firmitas Quotes & Sayings

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set. — Robert Neelly Bellah

Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again. — Axl Rose

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant. — Laurie Glimcher

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. — Frank Zappa

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring. — Tamora Pierce

A page of good prose remains invincible. — John Cheever

Grieving needs space, and it needs so much time. And it needs to be done; it cannot be trodden round or not looked in the eye. — Susan Fletcher

Anarchism or freedom is the aim, while the state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses, they have first to be enslaved. — Mikhail Bakunin