Use Quotes - Page 156

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it- you're halfway to Asphodel already.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

God doesn't come to kill, to steal or to destroy. That's the enemy. God comes to give abundant life. Know your God so you don't get confused.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.