Fountainheads Quotes

#1. Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith ... Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Saul D. Alinsky

#2. Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

James Northcote

#3. And people still laugh about as much as they ever did, despite their shrunken brains. If a bunch of them are lying around on a beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Moby

#5. One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

Edward Lazear

#6. Those who have no real virtue within but outwardly rely on flowery cleverness are like leaky boats brightly painted - if you put manikins in them and set them on dry ground they look all right, but once they go into the rivers and lakes, into the wind and waves, are they not in danger?

Shambhala Publications

#7. No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we exposed them the better. The whole concept of role models is frightful! You gotta make your own role.

William S. Burroughs

#9. I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Ann Richards

#10. A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.

Chris Crutcher

#11. We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.

Rodney King