The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Lincoln Steffens

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

Friedrich Nietzsche

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Edna Ferber

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Minna Antrim

each found her greatest safety in silence

Jane Austen

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

Criss Jami

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either.

Toby Barlow

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.

David Cook

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Michel Foucault