quotes for life..

Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.

Karl Marx
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

George W. Bush
Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information — outside the administration. (September 30, 2003)

George W. Bush
As Luce reminded me, he said, without data, without facts, without information, the discussions about public education mean that a person is just another opinion. (September 9, 2003)

George W. Bush
I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. (September 21, 2003)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

William Channing Gannett
Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life.

Gloria Steinem
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Gloria Steinem
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Lena Horne
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Corita Kent
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Wallace Stegner
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

"I love you more than I miss you. If you put that in numbers, you will need more than just a computer."

"See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me."

Norman Cousins
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Martin Niemöller
First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.

Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Fuller
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Corita Kent
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.