Volterra Quotes

#1. Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters ... We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#2. ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. I guess the more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. So close and yet so far.

Robin Benway

#4. Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

Henry David Thoreau

#5. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

Lilith Saintcrow

#6. Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Majora Carter

#7. I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,
spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
Who are you, and why do you seek me?

L. Frank Baum

#8. For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

John Charles Pollock

#9. Don't be afraid to let yourself get bored because some of the most amazing things are created through boredom.

Rachel Hamilton

#10. Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chad Smith

#11. Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Pierre Trudeau

#12. Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

Barbara Hepworth