“When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.” LittlesSufferingHeavenSilenceQualityViolenceMiracleAccomplishedVulgarObserving Author:Pierre Corneille
“For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.” MenMindFactsImaginationViolenceAuthorityAverageImmortalityColourAccomplishedDeniedPhantomsAverage ManVividness Author:May Sinclair
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...” MenWorldNeedsYearsFeelingsSufferingCausesCommunityJusticeCompassionViolenceThis WorldColorYears AgoHatredGentleGreekAccomplishedDivisionBulletsMartyrOur CommunityAssassinsLove And Compassion Author:Robert Kennedy
“In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.” HomePresidentViolenceReturnAddSouthResponseIraqMissionsFlightSuitsFighterAccomplishedGesturesTroopsReverseBackwardsPresident BushSymbolicFlewJetBannerAircraftCarrierReinforcementEscalatingAircraft CarriersMission Accomplished Author:Tina Fey