Quotes of Person - somelinesforyou

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. ”

- Bible

“ There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ”

- Ray Goforth

“ Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ "Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — . ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ”

- Jay Leno

“ All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ”

- Mark Twain

“ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, / Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; / From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. ”

- Bible

“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”

- Roland Barthes

“ He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ”

- William Faulkner

“ I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. ”

- Sarah Hughes

“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”

- Mark Dayton

“ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. ”

- Bible

“ We've got a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence we're doing the right stuff because the athletes are showing it, especially in the big championships. ”

- Bode Miller

“ To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. ”

- Joanna Baillie

“ You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. ”

- Helen Keller

“ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ How use doth breed a habit in a man! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”

- Rebecca West
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