Rideau Canal Quotes

#1. You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Tom Waits

#2. I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.

John F. Kerry

#3. What do you most wish for, Izzy?"
"Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

Mary Novik

#4. A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Andrew Vachss

#5. Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

Thomas Hardy

#6. For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Walter De La Mare

#7. The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. - SIDNEY HOOK

Joseph Heller

#8. One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.

Slavoj Zizek

#9. Look at the face of the other ... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

Aaron Johnson

#11. If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

Ephrem The Syrian