I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; for the heaven that smiles above me and awaits my spirit too. For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.


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It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.” “Well, that is al...
IAIN M. BANKS
The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
IAIN M. BANKS
[B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned...
IAIN M. BANKS
Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to ...
IAIN M. BANKS
Expunction of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing, but it can signify...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS
Some champions are born; others are forged!
KIERRA C.T. BANKS
You can choose to fight your journey every step of the way or you can embrace it, recognizing each s...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS
You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those ...
IAIN M. BANKS
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
IAIN M. BANKS
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN
I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI
'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS