Encircled Clothing Quotes

#1. Confucious and the Madman (excerpt)

The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down!
The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it.
Every man knows how useful it is to be useful.
No one seems to know
How useful it is to be useless.

Thomas Merton

#2. I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Michelle Obama

#3. Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the new and more beautiful society will not be formed exclusively - or even mainly - by improved conditions, but above all by more perfect human beings.

Ellen Key

#4. So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Tom Lantos

#5. Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code.

Mike Adams

#6. What assignment?" Lucky asked. "If it's training an all-woman SEAL team, then, yes, thank you very much, I'm your man.

Suzanne Brockmann

#7. Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

David Pleat

#8. A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Billy Joel

#10. Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

Harry J. Anslinger

#11. God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

Eric Ludy

#12. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Tom Stoppard

#13. We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

James Patterson

#14. Go in fear of abstractions.

Ezra Pound

#15. It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.

Roisin Turner