Margery Allingham Famous Quotes
"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us."
Margery Allingham Quotations
"Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest."
John Milton
"America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world."
Dinesh D Souza
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
Anais Nin
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Ursula K LeGuin
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Ernest Hello
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
Lord Salisbury
"What I've learned. . . . I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up."
Child Age 13
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."
Learned Hand
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer
"If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent."
Henry Commager