There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to…

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been…

— Tamora Pierce

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

— Anonymous

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war…

— Winston Churchill

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or…

— Samuel Rutherford

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans…

— Mona Charen

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some…

— Hunter S. Thompson

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

— David O. McKay

I've set a clear doctrine: America makes no distinction between the terrorists and the countries that harbor them. If you harbor a terrorist, you're…

— George W. Bush

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also…

— Paul Stamets

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are…

— Henry David Thoreau

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

— Robertson Davies

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…

— Robert Aris Willmott