Westhead Lathom Quotes

#1. In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.

Kendrick Meek

#2. When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Christopher Dodd

#4. The attempt to analyse was, of course, an attempt at exorcism.

P.D. James

#5. It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress. (...) Because with educated women comes prosperity. And with our voices comes mercy. And with our strength comes change.

Deborah Rodriguez

#6. The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

Kelly Miller

#7. The captain's sister-in-law had traded her mechanic's coveralls for a colorful shirt, shorts, and a huge straw hat. She looked like a tourist, and because I'm the helpful sort, I told her so.

Rachel Bach

#8. If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him ... God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Sam Storms

#9. There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#10. Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Thomas Nashe