Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIf you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleDemocracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942