Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. ~Lewis Grizzard
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. ~Ecclesiastes 1:9
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. ~Alfred North Whitehead
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ~Alan Watts
Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic; it's all going down, man. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve
Football is the opera of the people. ~Stafford Heginbotham, 1985
When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. ~Edward F. Croker
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~Pablo Picasso
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good. ~Linda Sunshine
Kids spell love T-I-M-E. ~John Crudele
Freedom is never given; it is won. ~A. Philip Randolph
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. ~Carl Sandburg, "Prairie," Complete Poems, 1950
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ~Norman Cousins
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ~Mark Twain The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~Terri Guillemets
A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860
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