Destony Quotes

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Common sense is not so common.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

You have to choose your battles

and sometimes let the small stuff go.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow.

Life is a crazy ride,

and nothing is guaranteed.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance,

but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

I have nothing in common with lazy people

who blame others for their lack of success.

Style is about expressing yourself without having to speak.

I like stories that make people think and feel at the same time.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls

while they are still rolling.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

All these primary impulses,

not easily described in words,

are the springs of man's actions.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.

I am willing to fight for peace.

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves

refuse to go to war.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation,

actually making life clever,

easy and convenient for white people.

But when you have to get transportation home,

you are denied an equal accommodation.

Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well being;

we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

I have a very strong work ethic.

No people is wholly civilized

where a distinction is drawn between

stealing an office and stealing a purse.