"Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him."

“I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.”

“During last night's Republican debate, Mike Huckabee got a big laugh when he said that Congress has been spending money like John Edwards at a beauty salon. Then Huckabee got an even bigger laugh when he said he's running for president”

“Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone”

Source : Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.129, Oxford University Press

“All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.”

“How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.”

“I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.”

Source : Xianliang Zhang, Martha Avery (1991). “Getting used to dying: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

“Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.”

“The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.”