Unavoid Quotes

#1. There was no reproach either in their faces or in their hearts,
only the knowledge that they must die in order that he
might remain alive, and that this was part of the unavoid-
able order of things.

George Orwell

#2. Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

Daniel Barenboim

#3. The American Dream is still alive and well ... it's just no longer in the United States.

Simon Black

#4. I've chickened out. Because what if he says no? What if he says yes? What if he bludgeons me with a chisel? What if the English guy is there? What if he isn't? What if he bludgeons me with a chisel? What if my m other breaks stone as easily as clay? What if this rash on my arm is leprosy? Etc.

Jandy Nelson

#5. A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume

#6. The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ Ryan Mark, Author

Ryan Mark

#7. Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

Lewis Grizzard

#8. We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#9. Logic has rid us of the absurdity of our clothes. That's progress, no irony, only now we are cold. Hale and ill trade bodies with unusual willingness, while in midair souls tangle. The young start out disgusted and Poetry is left to the memo-writers.

Odysseus Elytis

#10. He was at once saving himself, in some way, and mercilessly destroying himself.

W.G. Sebald

#11. In certain waya it was easy for others to take advantage of him. He refused to complain about anything.

Paul Auster

#12. Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Jamie Farr

#13. There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Wim Wenders

#14. We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Barack Obama

#15. One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

Linda Dillow

#16. The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

Anthony Lewis