It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

Roger Scruton

And Silence, like a poultice, comesTo heal the blows of sound.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My last words? Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.

Kurt Vonnegut

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.

St Vincent De Paul

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent.

Terry Pratchett

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Herbert Marcuse

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

William Hazlitt

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

Nick Johnson

Time is too slow for those who waittoo swift for those who feartoo long for those who grieve,too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity.Hours fly, flowers die, new days, new ways pass by, Love stays.

Henry Van Dyke, Katrina's Sun Di