The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

Jon Stewart

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

True love is born from understanding.

The Buddha

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Kenneth Clark

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Morris K. Udall

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

George Allen

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

V. S. Naipaul

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Bible

Bury the truth, along with the bodies of the disbelievers.

Jarod Kintz

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Harry Chapin

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Jack Nicholson

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Benjamin Franklin