Xelovnuri Quotes & Sayings

Now, the disposition to be conservative in respect of politics reflects a quite different view of the activity of governing. The man of this disposition understands it to be the business of a government not to inflame passion and give it new objects to feed upon, but to inject into the activities of already too passionate men an ingredient of moderation; to restrain, to deflate, to pacify and to reconcile; not to stoke the fires of desire, but to damp them down. And all this, not because passion is vice and moderation virtue, but because moderation is indispensable if passionate men are to escape being locked in an encounter of mutual frustration. — Michael Oakeshott

If a person loses hope, they have lost everything. (I tried to put this one in the earlier quotes section, but it never loaded properly.) — Dennis Moulton

I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand. — Alice Temperley

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame — Oscar Wilde

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. — Gertrude Stein

Now he learned what law and order and truth are, what consent and harmony mean; how the individual may find his own end in a higher end, where law and freedom mean the same thing, and the purest certainty exists without the slightest constraint. — George MacDonald

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.' — Charles Mingus

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team. — Christine Todd Whitman

I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be. — N'Zuri Za Austin

The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists. — Alan Tower Waterman