quotes for strength
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ~Vera Brittain, 1964
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar
We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Pulvis et umbra," 1888
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Hell, everything's legal in Mexico. It's the American way. ~Uncle Jimbo, "Summer Sucks," original airdate 24 June 1998, written by Nancy Pimental & Trey Parker
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ~Sholem Asch
Information is the currency of democracy. ~Thomas Jefferson
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851
I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ~Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ~Joseph Howe, 1824
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. ~Arthur Ashe