We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Laurie Anderson

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own?

Abraham Cowley

This lady is not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Blaise Pascal

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Melissa George

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

Jerry Only

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

James Elroy Flecker

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Chris Martin

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Neil Gaiman

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy