"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."

“A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.”

“The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

“I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.”

“President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.”

“I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.”

Source : Source: ryanjordan.com

“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.”