Wymark Greasomatic Quotes & Sayings

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it. — Nikolai Berdyaev

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape. — Yusef Komunyakaa

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. — Barry Unsworth

There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts. — Marianne Williamson

Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality. — Conan O'Brien

Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion. — Paul Ryan

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. — Philip Emeagwali

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence. — Charles Dudley Warner

A person hears only what they understand. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh, come on! Nobody's favorite color is BROWN! — Lee Blessing

God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full 30 and blessed perfection by cleaving to him. — The Catholic Church

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family. — Elizabeth Edwards

Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star. — Alice Notley

You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. — Malcolm X