Flexed Position Quotes

#1. Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

Susan Orlean

#2. John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

David Miliband

#3. The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

Carol Bly

#4. The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

Andrew Solomon

#5. Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Ezra Pound

#6. 'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?

Paul Jacob

#7. It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

John F. Kerry

#8. The journey of Soul ... by the lessons gained in the physical experience ... it may take (its) place in the realms of soul activity in an infinite world among others that have passed through the various realms ... which first called every soul and body into experience.

Edgar Cayce

#9. They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice ... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer