Vizitorma Quotes & Sayings

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave. — Lysander Spooner

Grace is not the absence of the struggle; it is the presence of protection. — Sarah Jakes

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. — George Herbert

Harry didn't see how he could - yet he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds. — J.K. Rowling

The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure. — James Gates Percival

The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. — Kresley Cole

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right. — Sara Sheridan

When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them. — John Fairclough

Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand — Lester L. Laminack

Though sorrow may impede my heart,
It is of great love to have known you. — C. Elizabeth

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it. — Susan Sontag

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature."
"It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin," I said.
"My bravery exceeds my good sense," he said. — Lee Goldberg

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton