B. J. Porter Quotes

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

Love is full of imagination.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

I always write a story in one sitting.

I work whenever I'm let.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

words can never get at the truth.

Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.