Vntureckie Quotes

Dear God, please make me believe that life has some sort of meaning and purpose. ~ Donald O'Donovan

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest. ~ Willis Polk

Patients have the right to help themselves. ~ James Heywood

I like playing people with a dark side. ~ Corey Sevier

Faith is the only known cure for fear. ~ Lena Sadler

they are mystified by certain instances. ~ William Carlos Williams

It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people. ~ Fergus McCann

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech) ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not. ~ Lord Chesterfield

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes. ~ Cees Nooteboom

Half a century of digging among the ruins of the past had made me painfully familiar with the feet of clay which were buried deeply in the sands of time and which only too often supported the magnificent superstructure of some of the statues erected to our departed gods and half-gods. But, on the other hand, where would we have been - yes, where would we be today - unless occasionally there had been feet of granite, willing and able to carry their owners into the realm of the unknown and find new roads toward progress? The answer was - nowhere at all. We needed those voortrekkers, as our South African cousins used to call them. We needed a few stout hearts to do the pioneering. Without those men and women who trekked ahead of the rest of the crowd and either found new grazing fields or died in the attempt, no one of us would ever have gotten very far. We would have been obliged to stick to the swampy coastal regions, where we had lived and died until then, since the beginning of time, and we would never have known what lay hidden beyond the distant mountain ranges. ~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it. ~ Paul Levine

I'm the type of person that likes to dream big, and I've often found that every great journey begins with a dream ~ Joseph Pisani

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. ~ William S. Burroughs