Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before
– Elbert Hubbard
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before
– Elbert Hubbard
Writers seldom write the things they think They simply write the things they think other folks think they think
Famous Quotes and Sayings – Elbert Hubbard
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage
Famous Quotes – Wendell Phillips
Kings
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars,
pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
Abraham Lincoln 1848
Source:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Abraham.Lincoln.Quote.B72F
– Abraham Lincoln
I stand before you as somebody who is both physicist and a priest, and I want to hold together my scientific and my religious insights and experiences. I want to hold them together, as far as I am able, without dishonesty and without compartmentalism. I don’t want to be a priest on Sunday and a physicist on Monday; I want to be both on both days.
– John Polkinghorne
Life… is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You’re stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there’s a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they’re gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you’re desperate enough to eat those, all you’ve got left is a… is an empty box… filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
– Cigarette Smoking Man in The X-Files
God
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
Source: September 1862 – Meditation on the Divine Will
– Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
– April 6, 1859 – Letter to Henry Pierce
– Abraham Lincoln
Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
- Edward Abbey
Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge