Unfrequent Quotes

#1. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.

Samuel Adams

#2. To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Milarepa

#3. Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

Henry Clay

#4. Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard.

Leo Kottke

#5. No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.

Taner Akcam

#6. There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

John Lancaster Spalding

#7. They only hit he you, he says, when they care.

Junot Diaz

#8. While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.

David Rangel

#9. Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

John Thune

#10. I'm well on my way to achieving my life-goal: to become an eccentric old woman.

Kate Rauner

#11. I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

Don Shula

#12. Simona: Truth doesn't exist?
Katie: ...because everyone's got their own side of a story
...If there's no real truth, then all we can do is offer up our own stories and listen to other people's and try and make sense of it all

Jenny Downham

#13. Griff's pretty neat on his own. Scottish hedge!

Damon Suede

#14. Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

Kingsley Amis

#15. Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

John F. Kerry

#16. I see the life with your sight,
O" the love; you're my light.

Debasish Mridha