Kolonist Quotes

#1. There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.

Richmond Akhigbe

#2. I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

Bruce Vilanch

#3. As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth - unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

Nick Hanauer

#5. Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. Every writer owes something to Holmes.
T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929

T. S. Eliot

#7. Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

Caroline Myss

#8. And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

Arthur Rimbaud

#9. You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

Tanith Lee

#10. Hunger is my crime.

Sherman Alexie

#11. No people can be truly happy ... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

William Penn

#12. When God's people couldn't take another step, He was there to carry them.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. There are so many issues that this country [the U.S.] has, and that the world faces, that it's important that we sit down and recognize our commonality. When we do that, we can actually work together to overcome some of the problems that we have. That, to me, is just a good starting place.

Paul Blackthorne

#14. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

#15. Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

Dallas Willard