"Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves."

“There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.”

“Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1871). “Music and morals”, p.291

“Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't for you, we would have been toast." "Whoa," Dan said. "If you're throwing a pity party for yourself, don't invite me." He poked her. "You were the one who got Jonah to find us. Awesome lung power. I thought you only used that volume to get me out of the bathroom.”

“I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it's a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.”

“Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.”

“And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.”

Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

“As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.”

Source : "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". Article by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

“...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.”