“Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.” Quote by Laura Miller
“They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.” MenFallEvilRichRootsDestructionFoolishLustTemptationHurtfulSnaresLove Of MoneyPerditionMoney Is The Root Of All EvilResisting Temptation Author:Paul the Apostle
“In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.” MenCreaturesLondon Author:John Galt
“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.” PeopleHas BeensTwoCharacterFeelingsNationsDifferencesJusticeRaceLibertyMoralAspectEnglandNotionScotlandFlexibleSpineCharterScotchDialectStatutesIdiomBritonsTwo Nations Author:John Galt
“Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.” WholeFactsClassSouthernNobilityFarmingPeasantsVirginiaAristocracyMerchantsColonyCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:Carl L. Becker
“The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.” NationsSecurityProtectConstitutionLibertarian Author:Jeff Sessions
“We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.” ThinkingLawPayJudging Author:Jeff Sessions
“Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.” PeopleThinkingLittlesFoundBotheredAmusing Author:Madeline Kahn
“What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.” MenTodayCreatingDiedTheaterAidsGifted Author:Madeline Kahn
“The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.” BelieveHumansI BelieveVoiceLove IsWrittenCulminationHuman Voice Author:Robert Pinsky
“An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.” MeanTogetherReadingForceClearCoupleElementsUnitsPausesGrammarUnderestimatedReading Aloud Author:Robert Pinsky