Top 15 Laethems Quotes
#1. Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.
Roger Scruton
#2. We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
#3. The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words.
Charles McNair
#5. The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
Ban Ki-moon
#6. Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
George Eliot
#7. I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#8. People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.
Fran Lebowitz
#9. The crushed carcasses of slugs and frogs mixing with the Cretaceous carbons of tar give the road an organic glaze.
Robert Michael Pyle
#10. I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.
Ivan Glasenberg
#12. Art is ... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
Sufjan Stevens
#13. I knew whatever I said right then she wouldn't hear; with that kind of pain, a deafness comes.
Sarah Dessen
#14. The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
John Quincy Adams
#15. One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert
