Aldren 70 Quotes

#1. In the animal kingdom, lions, tigers and bears - the predators - have closely spaced eyes. Giraffes, rabbits, doves - the preyed upon - have eyes more widely spaced and oriented toward the sides of their heads, because they need their peripheral vision to survive.

Patricia Cornwell

#2. Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#4. The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity ...

Queen Victoria

#5. How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.

Meir Soloveichik

#6. Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people

Eddy Grant

#8. Time and oppression are the fathers of rebellious invention.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#9. A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That's it!

Jhumpa Lahiri

#10. Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even specially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

Allan Bloom

#11. Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

John Grisham

#12. My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.

Serge Schmemann

#13. It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.

Bill Hader

#15. It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

Ann Romney