Ventura Chicago Quotes

#1. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#2. God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.

F.B. Meyer

#3. One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

George Santayana

#4. If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as queen.

Beth Kery

#5. Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Plautus

#6. True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

Walter Benjamin

#7. There's nothing better than a child's laugh

Anonymous

#8. Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

J.D. Robb