valentine's week Quotes

We must fight for the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone,

you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind;

some come from ahead,

and some come from behind.

But I've brought a big bat.

I'm all ready, you see,

now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The winners when you're doing these experiments

pay for thousands of losers.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government,

who assist in bearing its burdens.

Consequently,

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage,

who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

the valiant never taste of death but once.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I call not for aid from the state,

but for justice.

We don’t want to tell our dreams.

We want to show them.

It was that which gave promise that in due time

the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men,

and that all should have an equal chance.

This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Life is a puzzle,

and comedy is the way we try to make sense of it.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.

Strive on with diligence.

Do you want to know who you are?

Don't ask.

Act! Action will delineate and define you

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes

its reward to the man who loves his work.

But...

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Even in our sleep,

pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until,

in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom.

Whatever the cost of our libraries,

the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of

an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Political courage means standing up for your beliefs,

no matter the opposition.