Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Brigid Brophy

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Benjamin Franklin

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Jacques Maritain

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Sherwood Smith

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

Sheldon Kopp

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Paul Klee

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

W. S. Gilbert

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

Richard Eberhart

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

George Soros

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering.

Robert A. Heinlein

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Oscar Wilde

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Rem Koolhaas