Harpooned Crossword Quotes

#1. I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Marquis De Sade

#2. How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

John Henry Newman

#3. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

#4. I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

Jonathan Lethem

#5. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston S. Churchill

#6. Our wish is that ... [there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.

Bill Vaughan

#8. Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Marcel Proust

#9. Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.

Caitlin Moran

#10. For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

Catullus

#11. When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

Mary Ellen Clark

#12. If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

Mother Angelica

#13. God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.

Elsa Tamez

#14. When we get off the plane, the fact that we are far from New York immediately becomes evident. Everything moves slower here; the change of pace feels something like relief. The Southern drawl has a laxative effect on Carl too, magically removing the stick from his ass.

Julie Buxbaum