Compassionate Political System Quotes

#1. No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

Albert Einstein

#2. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Molly Ivins

#3. And we weren't a species interested in facts, as such. We were more into evading or spinning them.

Adrian Barnes

#4. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

Bobby Fischer

#5. I have never pictured my own wedding. I do want to get married. I think it's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos
you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life..

Sloane Crosley

#6. I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.

Henry Rollins

#7. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Louise Wilder

#8. Marvellous happy it was to be
Alone, and yet not solitary.
O out of terror and dark, to come
In sight of home.

Walter De La Mare

#9. We knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.

Amitav Ghosh

#10. That's the van? It looks like a rotting banana.
This was undeniable - Eric had painted the van a neon shade of yellow, and it was blotched with dings and rust like splotches of decay.

Cassandra Clare

#11. There's a sort of jet lag when you time-travel to your own past.

Bill Watterson

#12. When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

Philipp Meyer