Agapes Prize Quotes

#1. make words your finest weapons - a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d

Amanda Lovelace

#2. There is a deep - and usually frustrated - desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

Xenophon

#3. I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.

Obie Trice

#4. There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens...If it can not live in the affections of its people, it must die.

James Buchanan

#6. A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation.

Anonymous

#7. But even the best luck is no good until it's used, and we must find the right way to use it.

Fred Saberhagen

#8. There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#9. The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

Milan Kundera

#10. When you find that God is absent, you do many things. You temporize, for a while. You buy a new prayer book, hoping that perhaps some Celtic blessings might do the trick.

Lauren F. Winner