Perihelion Quotes

#1. The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

H.L. Mencken

#2. In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Fernando Botero

#3. The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

Edward Kennedy

#4. I don't know why anybody does anything in the winter. I always say, if you want to do something, move to Phoenix.

Gary Reilly

#5. Let's try to remember that the world isn't just, because only then will we have the power to change it.

John Green

#6. First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#7. This is my company. My office. My desk. I make the rules, and you tried to subvert them. Now I'll show you how I run things here when a woman like you tears me away from work.

Lauren Blakely

#8. We soon fall asleep in each other's arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.

Fernando Lachica

#9. Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

A.E. Samaan

#10. I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Martin Rees

#11. Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

Edward Young

#12. The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

Sarah Winnemucca

#14. I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

Theodore Roethke