America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

-Laurence J. Peter

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness

- Sir Robert Hutchinson

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

- Dan McKinnon

Charity sees the need not the cause.

-German Proverb

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the  poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other

- Oscar Ameringer

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

- Bette Davis

Be a fountain, not a drain

Rex Hudler

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

-John Stuart Mill

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselvesin their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first that in relation to wrongs embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.

-Abraham Lincoln

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

-Susan Sontag

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

-Andrew W. Mathis

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change

-Jane Goodall

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it

-Napoleon Bonaparte

The light in the world comes principally from two sources, — the sun, and the student’s lamp.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking. If all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed, and why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of what pro-life is.

-Sister Joan Chittister

My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking

-Ferdinand Foch

The slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

-Robert Louis Stevenson