"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

-- John F. Kennedy

#Life Quotes #Fall Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.”
“The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.”
“I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization”
“If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?”
“Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.”
“We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.”
“He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.”

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