Famous Quotes

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LaDawnna Burnett (1975 - ), Letters on Ethics:

Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA:

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Goethe:

I call architecture frozen music.

Marchioness Townsend:

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.

Abbie Hoffman:

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Aesop:

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Cherrie Moraga:

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Lao-Tzu:

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847:

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo:

It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom:

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Dr. A. B. Meldrum:

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Socrates, Crito," (Plato):

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Aeschylus:

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.