Quotes to Explore

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Author : Victor Hugo

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Author : Thomas Paine

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Author : George Eliot

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Author : Khalil Gibran

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange’s judgment has been pretty good so far.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Author : Confucius

They just have a feel about them. And you feel your way through them and you come out with something that’s very powerful and mythic. And you don’t quite know how you got there. I think this story has a lot of those elements.

May you live all the days of your life.