Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

Buffalo Bill

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

Barbara Deming

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Bryant H. McGill

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Boyd Rice

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Caroline Kennedy

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Samuel Daniel

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Ursula K. Le Guin

dropped and falling from such heights for so long that maybe I will have enough time to learn flying

Vera Pavlova

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

Vivian Stanshall

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

William Congreve

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

William Congreve

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

William Falconer

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

William Dean Howells

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Wilfred Owen

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

William Shenstone

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

William Shenstone

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

Zig Ziglar

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Civilization and Its Discontents

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

The Captive & The Fugitive