Wiechers Dwingeloo Quotes

#1. No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#2. History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

Albert Einstein

#3. And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the absorbing pursuit of the moment will appear, not only to others, but to ourselves, a very short time hence.

Kenneth Grahame

#4. I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

M. Ward

#5. To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

George Herbert Mead

#6. Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

Samuel Johnson

#7. I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps!

David Bowie

#8. He's just another man who wants to teach me something.

Sheila Heti

#9. Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.

Christos Tsiolkas

#10. Don't lose yourself in the process of caring for others. Don't overdo it as if you don't need any care to give to yourself. It's true, you are special too!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that.

John Scalzi