quotes for life..

Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Bill Moyers
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Christopher Reeve
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

John Gardner
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

James Walker
A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. Journal

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Anonymous
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble. (a combination of Proverbs 12:22 and Psalms 46:1)

E. B. White
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Montaigne
He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying.

Paul Anka
And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Ann Radcliffe
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Bonaro W. Overstreet
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

Kenneth Patton
The right is not created in the exercise of power, but if the right does not have the power to become established, then power will rule of itself.

Kenneth Patton
By labor we can find food and water, but all of our labor will not find for us another hour.

Kenneth Patton
We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.

Michel de Montaigne
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.

John F. Kennedy
Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive

Hierocles
We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

Roy H. Williams
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Benjamin Franklin
There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Ernest Hemingway
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.