Quotes of Josiah Quincy

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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

- Josiah Quincy

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“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. ”

- Bill Hicks

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ The night still bold The cold singing by The crickets on their turbo Ushering in a celestial night in beautiful robe For tonight he will wonder into a glorious quest of the night As he lay down his head, will the Angels guard him Good night and sweet dreams ”

- Perpetua Ukakogu

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially ”

- Veronica Roth

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Friendship not defined by words Friendship only defined by action ”

- Arshdeep Singh Samrala