Aristophanes Democracy Quotes

#1. Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

Jack Kerouac

#2. Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Scott

#3. What is stronger in us - passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

Nikolai Gogol

#4. My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

Shia Labeouf

#5. The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply.
The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

Helen Roseveare

#7. On vague wording of drone strike criteria: Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That's gobbledygook.

Rand Paul

#8. She wished that these kinds of advances in reproductive medicine had been available to her. But then the embryo that had developed into Anna would've been discarded.

Lisa Genova

#9. To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.

Garth Stein

#10. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

Aristophanes

#11. Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.

Henry Van Dyke

#12. Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

Elizabeth Peyton

#13. The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.

Stephanie Garber

#14. I wish we were alone," he says.
"I almost always wish that," I say.

Veronica Roth

#15. In a world that lives like a fist
mercy is not more than waking
with your hands open.

Mark Nepo