::" There were paradoxical if not opposed trends towards revolutionary and reactionary positions, fear of the new and delight at the disappearance of the old, nihilism and fanatical enthusiasm, creativity and despair.

::" There is no true value of any characteristic, state, or condition that is defined in terms of measurement or observation.

::" There are men in the village of Erith that nobody seeth or heareth,

::" There was a ship ," quoth he.

::" There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth.

::" There was theatre ( Griffith ), poetry ( Murnau ), painting ( Rossellini ), dance ( Eisenstein ), music ( Renoir ).

::" There is a darkness greater than the one we fight.

::" There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,

::" There, I at once had the feeling that this was the right way to do everything.

::" If anyone imagines that we are stating the case too strongly, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy he meets by asking,

::" Where, oh where, are you tonight?

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

::" The principle of utility does not mean that any given pleasure, as music, for instance, or any given exemption from pain, as for example health, are to be looked upon as means to a collective something termed happiness, and to be desired on that account.

::" In a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy.

::" Nice old, soft bits of good Turkish towelling, properly washed, will make the softest of diaper coverings, inside which specially absorbent napkins ( diapers ), see below at 1A, soft, light, and easily washed, are contained.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

::" Buechner's theological efforts are never systematic treatises but instead short, highly literary productions in most of which he draws explicit links with fiction-writing generally and his own fiction in particular ... Buechner's 1969 Noble Lectures at Harvard, published in 1970 as The Alphabet of Grace, comprise a slender volume which is one of his most important and revealing works.

::" If they are not there,

::" Reading is like eating ; the benefits are not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.

::" Positive feedback loops are sources of growth, explosion, erosion, and collapse in systems.

::" Most of you in here are of my vintage: we're ignored by the media.

::" Sacred for lovers of art, you are the glory of faith,

::" The Flowers of the Forest are a ' wede away ".

::" The orders I propose to make are of special significance as they constitute the first recognition and protection of native title resulting in the ongoing enjoyment of native title in the State of Victoria and, it would appear, on the South-Eastern seaboard of Australia.

::" Just as we deem the legislative intent manifest to tax the stockholder with respect to such accumulations only if and when, and to the extent that, his interest in them comes to fruition as income, that is, in dividends declared, so we can perceive no constitutional obstacle that stands in the way of carrying out this intent when dividends are declared out of a pre-existing surplus.

::" Permission to fight is given to those who are fought against because they have been wronged-truly Allah has the power to come to their support-those who were expelled from their homes without any right, merely for saying, ' Our Lord is Allah '..." ( Quran, 22: 39-40 )"

::" You should be thankful you are not in the Old Testament times, because there are some of us who would gladly execute you.

::" All things are from Him, through Him and in Him.

::" Aquinas, Augustine, St. Bernard, Bhagavad-Gita, Buddha, Jean Pierre Camus, St. Catherine, Christ, Chuang Tzu, “ Cloud of Unknowing ,” Contemplation, Deliverance, Desire, Eckhart ( five lines, the most quoted person ), Eternity, Fénelon, François de Sales, Godhead, Humility, Idolatry, St. John of the Cross, Knowledge, Lankavatara Sutra, William Law ( another four lines ), Logos, Love, Mahayana, Mind, Mortification, Nirvana, Perennial Philosophy ( six lines, a total of 40 entries in all ), Prayer, Rumi, Ruysbroeck, Self, Shankara, Soul, Spirit, “ Theologia Germanica ,” Truth, Upanishads ( six different ones are quoted ), Will, Words.

::" What are you reading now?

::" Now to prepare them against these contingencies, and that they might, have fresh air for the benefit of the elephants, cureloms or mammoths and many other animals, that perhaps were in them, as well as the human beings they contained, the Lord told them how to construct them in order to receive air, that when they were on the top of the water, whichever side up their vessels happened to be, it mattered not ; they were so constructed that they could ride safely, though bottom upwards and they could open their air holes that happened to be uppermost " ( Orson Pratt, JoD 12: 340 ).

::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.

::" The Duplessis regime may well have endured for too long, the Union Nationale leader's traditionalist policies may well have been anachronistic when compared with the relatively modern society that, in many respects, the Quebec of the 1950s had already become.

::" During a certain period in the not too distant past, Japan, following a mistaken national policy, advanced along the road to war, only to ensnare the Japanese people in a fateful crisis, and, through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations.

::" Snorri was middling in height and somewhat slender, fair to look on, straight faced and of light hue ; of yellow hair and red beard ; he was meek of mood in his daily ways ; little men knew of his thought for good or ill ; he was a wise man, and forseeing in many things, enduring in wrath and deep in hatred ; of good rede was he for his friends, but his unfriends deemed his counsels but cold.

::" Who was the fool, who the wise,

::" Are you the Katherine MacLean who wrote ' Incommunicado '?

::" I was reading a magazine as I waited my turn at a barber shop one day when, triggered by a particular article and the photographs that went with it, there floated up out of some hitherto unexplored subcellar of me a character who was to dominate my life as a writer for the next six years and more.

::" Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve eternal salvation " ( Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, 16 ).

::" One day the circle of those who sat at the feet of Seyyid Kázim was augmented by a fresh arrival.

::" He is a notorious terrorist, and we have very clearly and publicly announced what is going to happen to notorious terrorists who commit heinous crimes of the type Mr. Basayev has been involved in.

::" In the years when our Country was in mortal danger, ( name ) who served ( dates ) gave generously of his time and powers to make himself ready for her defence by force of arms and with his life if need be.

::" all who owned property or houses sold them and lay them at the feet of the apostles to be distributed to everyone according to his need.

::" The great majority of those who have carefully investigated the subject have come to the conclusion that there exists in man, as one of his constituent principles, a certain subtle element, known by the names of animal electricity, animal magnetism, galvanism, the nervous energy, the nervous fluid, etc.

::" You, the class of 1990 ... How do you feel about your valedictorian with the 4. 9 Grade Point Average who arrived in this country six months ago speaking no English in a rowboat from Saigon?

::" It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you.

::" To the memory of Lieutenant Jacques Charlot " ( who transcribed Ravel's four-hand piece Ma mère l ' oye for solo piano )

::" Ultra-alien aliens resembling large dots in large bottles-and the Earthmen who try to communicate with them ..." Panther Edition blurb.

::" Ensete is totally involved in every aspect of the daily social and ritual life of the Gurage, who, with several others tribes in Southwest Ethiopia, form what has been termed the Ensete Culture Complex area ... the life of the Gurage is enmeshed with various uses of ensete, not the least of which is nutritional.

::" Lucullus, indeed, and Drusus and Octavius, and Cato and the whole house of Hortensii, since he held them bound by close social ties, he was treated by them with the highest of honors ; for not only did everyone cultivate his friendship who devoted to hear and to take in anything they did, but even those who only pretended.

::" JJ believes that most people who are interested in what he calls D & S, what I call ' our thing ' and Bill Borher calls wiitwd ( what it is that we do ) and most people on ASB call BDSM, are interested in power exchange.