Vernard Lewis Quotes

#1. What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

Henri Nouwen

#2. All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.

Max Hastings

#3. I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely ... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.

Jessa Crispin

#4. Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

Sidney Hook

#5. Your ability is a gift, but it isn't enough to reach your goal. You must be persistent and diligent on your way, and whatever happens, you must always get back up on your feet.

B.B. Vayk

#6. One spear to start a war, one spear to prime them. One spear to bring them all and into bloodshed bind them.

Alis Franklin

#7. I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

Amy Smart

#8. I dream, therefore I exist.

August Strindberg

#9. I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat.

Naomie Harris

#10. Intuition often sees where science is blind.

Marty Rubin

#11. We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#12. Life is an adventure. If you treat it as such, you'll enjoy it's happiness

Manny Segarra

#13. Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

William Wordsworth