"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

-- Harry S. Truman

#Patriotic Quotes #Apology Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability.Â In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with.Â There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue.Â The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin.Â And people die.”
“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.”
“Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.”
“Perhaps, this is what love has always been, whether it is for a woman of for a cause -- the readiness to give and not ask for anything in return, the unquestioning willingness to lose everything, even if that loss is as something as precious as life itself.”
“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”
“Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.”
“Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.”
“I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.”

Source : "Pop Quiz: Davey Havok of A.F.I". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2006.

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