Johns Garden Quotes

#1. William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod,
Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:
'The nakedness of woman is the work of God',
Or that title
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Allen Tate

#2. The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Emil Cioran

#3. It's amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you're desperate enough.

Cat Clarke

#4. I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.

Suzanne Shaw

#5. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Erica Jong

#7. Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself.

Timothy Snyder

#8. If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

Michael Harris

#9. Having a good belief system in yourself is so important for success and can help you in many ways. First thing a belief system accomplishes is that it builds your self-esteem. Knowledge

Brent R

#10. Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

#11. Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

Michael Diamond

#12. Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

Michele Bachmann

#13. The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Ben Harper

#14. Whoever sees the light shall never walk in darkness.

Lailah Gifty Akita