Compulsions Quotes

Deep down,

the young are lonelier than the old.

Every known fact in natural science

was divined by the presentiment of somebody,

before it was actually verified.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Life is not a spectator sport.

If you're going to spend

your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on,

in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country

is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

My mother's wonderful.

To me she's perfection.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children,

and then sell them into interminable bondage,

with no other motive than that

which is furnished by dollars and cents,

is so much worse than the most depraved murderer

that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation,

of your most important asset your health.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Life’s too short to hang out with people

who aren’t resourceful.

He who has health,

has hope;

and he who has hope,

has everything.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier

to prevent an enemy from posting themselves

than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I’ve always been a bit of a non

conformist.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.