Quote Of The Day

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Albert Einstein

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion. It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

William Shakespeare

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of Gods creatures

Stephen King

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

J R R Tolkien

You will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

Francis Chan

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

John Calvin

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however correct.

David Hume

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.

Patti Smith

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

Henry Rollins

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept trying.

Michael Jordan

Children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

Elizabeth Bowen

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin D Roosevelt

Magnus sighed. Alexander, Ive been alive for hundreds of years. Ive been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two. He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. Too much information?

Cassandra Clare

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Benjamin Disraeli

I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.

George Carlin

All this wealth excludes but one evil, poverty.

Samuel Johnson

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Samuel Johnson