"To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them."

-- Carol Moseley Braun

#Mean Quotes #Phones Quotes #Years Quotes

“Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.”
“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”
“Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.”
“Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.”
“Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.”
“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”
“To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.”
“I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.”

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