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The Who Quotes (page 113)

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill. Noam Chomsky
The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!) Willa Cather
The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me. William Butler Yeats
Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain? Lewis Black
William Golding quote: "The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"Who cares?"
The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"Who cares? William Golding
Anne Frank quote: "Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look..."
Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way. Anne Frank
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. Hunter S. Thompson
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. Dante Alighieri
T. H. White quote: "The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like..."
The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards. T. H. White
The hair on your head affects people and is a testament to the world about who you are."- Bonnie Foreshaw (Tabatha Rowley's story) Wally Lamb
John James Audubon quote: "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those..."
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best. John James Audubon
Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'This poet lies: Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.' So should my papers yellow'd with their age Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue, And your true rights be term'd a... William Shakespeare
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jodi Picoult quote: "Who knew that when you cut a slit in the belly of the night..."
Who knew that when you cut a slit in the belly of the night sky, it bled color? Jodi Picoult
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape. Martin Van Creveld

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