The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.

Bible

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death

Albert Camus

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

Edward Bond

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Howard Nemerov

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

Beth Ditto

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

William Gurnall

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Terry McAuliffe

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

Stephen Burt

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph Schumpeter

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Benjamin Franklin

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley