Expostulate Def Quotes

#1. The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

Fiona Shaw

#2. It's too big, too powerful. There is no start and no end, nothing with which I can measure the length and breadth of what I feel for you.

J. Kenner

#3. We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

Franz Kafka

#4. I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

Tony Benn

#5. Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Javier Marias

#6. Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

Frank Gehry

#7. Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder - immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse - humanity.

Octave Mirbeau

#8. Philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization ... but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?

Isaiah Berlin

#9. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#10. A young college graduate earns 63% more than a high-school graduate if both work full-time - and the high-school graduate is much less likely to work at all.

Anonymous

#11. In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Chrissie Hynde

#12. The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

Gerald R. Ford

#13. I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Lynn Swann