Periclean Ultra Quotes

#1. The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Russell Smith

#2. The weak hold onto grudges;
the great hold onto love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

Earl Wilson

#4. Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a school, ... (will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support of the profession.

Harris L Coulter

#6. We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

#7. A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.

Maximus The Confessor

#8. Heiresses are never jilted.

George Meredith

#9. Happiness lies in making the environment happy.

Tapan Ghosh

#10. What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#11. There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

David Harvey

#12. Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

David Chang

#13. I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

John Green