1871 Act Quotes

#1. For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Francis Bacon

#2. While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

Jerrold Nadler

#3. Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Tom Yawkey

#4. There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people. If any one idea dominates the teachings of Jesus, it is his opposition to the self-righteousness of the righteous.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#5. We obviously talk about immigration, but that's not the number one priority for - at least that I've seen with the Latino demographic. And we have not seen that as polling as the number one issue either.

Lucy Flores

#6. A child cannot quarrel with it's elders, as I had done-cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine-without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist
I don't think she'd be missed
I'm sure she'd not be
missed!

W.S. Gilbert

#8. The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.

Harry Sinden

#9. There is always a journey to take and there is always a final destination to reach. There is always an aim and there is always a focal point, good or bad. Because of where we want to get to, we mind not just our actions, but the reasons behind our actions also!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah