Wallbanks Quotes & Sayings

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it. — Lady Gregory

Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor ... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn. — Emma Goldman

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters. — Russell Smith

My love for you sings, and it's a song that will never stop playing. It will play through our deaths and beyond that. And this I know. — Karina Halle

A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money — Ed Seykota

The library was the best place in the world. — Anita Anand

The appearance of plenty can be deceptive. It doesn't always mean a person is well. — Kate Morton

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — W. H. Auden

Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem. — Forrest Carr

And girl-women, women, curved like instruments or fruit, skin burnished brown-bright, suit tops held by delicate knots of fragile colored string against the pull of mysterious weights, suit bottoms riding low over the gentle juts of hips totally unlike your own, immoderate swells and swivels that melt in light into a surrounding space that cups and accommodates the soft curves as things precious. You almost understand. — David Foster Wallace

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them. — David Agus

There was no bang, no light at the end of a tunnel. I didn't feel pain or even numb, and Sirius was right, it was quicker and easier than falling asleep — Daniel Xiao Wang

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions. — Thomas Jefferson