Wijfoto Quotes & Sayings

In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. — Samuel Adams

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. — Antonio Tabucchi

The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.) — Dick Morris

...detachment from anger is one part of wisdom. — Steven Saylor

We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature. — Jorge Luis Borges

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. — Mignon McLaughlin

He said it was as if she punctured his skin and entered his veins and swan directly to his heart. — Sarah Winman

I know. But I like you even more when I'm sober." "Boom," Bernice moaned. "Right in the feels. — T.J. Klune

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine. — Robert Goulet

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. — Byron White