History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Vanessa Hudgens

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.Bacon was referring to Jesus

Francis Bacon, The Advancement o

There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

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We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

Gilbert George

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Peter Davison

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

Cynthia Ozick

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

Jon Porter