Quotes for All
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead … Read more
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely: to preserve and transmit knowledge. In olden days, people did not write books, they incorporated their knowledge into works of art. We would find a great many ideas in the works of ancient … Read more
The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man’s rights. Ezra Taft Benson
My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas. Ezra Stoller
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. Euripides
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man’s improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some … Read more
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. Erik Larson
The Lives of Great Men are more oft’ at variance with their profess’d Phillosophies than consistent with ’em. Erica Jong
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as ’tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men. Erica Jong
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new … Read more