Vobis Sanus Quotes & Sayings

That place where I was born was a cold town. Even the mountains stood away. They were not sure, no more than me, of that dark spot, those same mountains.
There was a black river that flowed through the town, and if it had no grace for mortal beings, it did for swans, and many swans resorted there, and even rode the river like some kind of plunging animal, in floods.
— Sebastian Barry

What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal. — William J. Clinton

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. — Mac Thornberry

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. — Natasha Trethewey

In other words, government had always been big for people like us, and we were fine with that. But beginning in the 1960s, as people of color began to gain access to the benefits for which we had always been eligible, suddenly we discovered our inner libertarian and decided that government intervention was bad, — Tim Wise

Everything you needed to know about the South could be found in either Savannah or New Orleans. — Kami Garcia

One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad. — Elf Sternberg

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power. — Gloria Steinem

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards. — Peter Shilton

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics. — Warren Beatty

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need. — Ai Weiwei