Chelane Colby Quotes

#1. Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

Thaddeus Stevens

#3. If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

Robert Rauschenberg

#4. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

Clara Zetkin

#5. I've only been an asshole to assholes!

Harlan Ellison

#6. I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City [i.e., Constantinople] than the Latin mitre

Loukas Notaras

#7. Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson ... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

Nick Clegg

#8. If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Phyllis Bottome

#9. Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Megan Whalen Turner

#10. A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

Steven Callahan

#11. Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Michael Dell

#12. Hey, sweet butt, he said. That broke the spell. Sweet butt? What the hell kind of guy called a girl he'd never met something like that?

Joanna Wylde

#13. I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

#14. Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Shimon Peres

#15. One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

Thomas Merton