Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“I object to violence because, while it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
Ghandi


“Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need.”
Judy Blume

[Lilith7]

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
John Kenneth Galbraith

“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are educated, you will not ask for power, you will take it.”
John Henrik Clarke

[zqwerty]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”

― Tennessee Williams.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

― Tennessee Williams.

[Lilith7]

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Turkish church, by the Potestant church, or by any other church that I know of. My mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify & enslave mankind, & monopolise power & profit.”
Thomas Paine

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato

[Lilith7]

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley

“We are in the golden age of music. There will come a time when technology becomes so advanced that we'll rely on them to make music rather than raw talent. Music will lose its soul.”
Freddie Mercury

[Lilith7]

“The heart has its own language.The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.”
Rumi



One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots.Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
Franz Kafka

[zqwerty]

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Patrick Rothfuss

[zqwerty]

Geoffrey Chaucer : “Time and Tide wait for no man”

[Lilith7]

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.”
Christine Caine

“It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they coud bear to live with.”
Anais Nin

[zqwerty]

“O great creator of being

Grant us one more hour to perform our art

and perfect our lives”

Jim Morrison of the Doors

[Lilith7]

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes...including you.”
Anne Lamott

“When a nation is psychologically & spiritually empty, totalitarianism comes in to fill the vacuum ; & the people sell their freedom as a neccessity for getting rid of the anxiety which is too great to bear any longer.”
Rollo May

[Lilith7]

“Old age has come at a terrible time. Just as I was starting to know it all, now I'm forgetting everything I knew.”
Anon

“Rest, nature, books, music such is my idea of happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy

[zqwerty]

The Theory of Trickledown or Reaganomics

   

[Lilith7]

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy

“We can only know that we know nothing. And that is highest degree of human wisdom.”
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same neccessity of loving serves to counteract their grief & heals them.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Rummaging in our soul, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share it.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The two most powerful warriors are patience & time.”
Leo Tolstoy

[zqwerty]

Said by Golda Meir, one of Israel's early leaders, which might have been said yesterday.

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children," she said. "But we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children."

   

[Lilith7]

“A man live & be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling that the artist has experienced.”
Leo Tolstoy

[Lilith7]

I sit on a man's back,choking him & making him carry me, & yet assure myself & others that I am very sorry for him & wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo Tolstoy