Filosoof Socrates Quotes

#1. 90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.

Jon Acuff

#2. The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Deborah Sampson

#4. I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

Edmund White

#5. You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.

Jim Butcher

#6. You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Jodi Picoult

#7. The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

Mitch Landrieu

#8. The pleasure was in the staging, the idea of ourselves as a repetition of others. I knew this without saying it, felt my femininity as the game of all women, a mysterious identification in which I lost myself.

Siri Hustvedt

#9. Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

Herbert Hoover