Crackpots Mosaic Trail Quotes

#1. Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Larry Elder

#2. The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Margaret Oliphant

#3. To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Wallace Stevens

#4. Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

Keith Rabois

#5. Nothing big ever came from being small.

William J. Clinton

#6. Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath ...

Robert Wyland

#7. What distinguishes modernity from the age of Christendom is not that the former is more devoted to rationality than was the latter but that its rationality serves different primary commitments

David Bentley Hart

#8. Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move ... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

George S. Patton

#9. To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

William Kingdon Clifford

#10. Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

#11. When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

Rumi

#12. All I can look after is my own farm, serve those who seek when they are sick. I have children to look after so that they will not know what hunger is.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#13. Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.

Dwight Longenecker

#14. When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE

Eleanor Herman

#15. Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Kay Redfield Jamison