Hangout Quotes

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

The time comes upon every public man

when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Never give up,

for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal,

or acts to improve the lot of others,

he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

There can be no greater error than to expector calculate,

upon real favors from nation to nation.

It is an illusion which experience must cure,

which a just pride ought to discard.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth

and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Between two evils,

I always pick the one I never tried before.

In this sad world of ours,

sorrow comes to all;

and to the young,

it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.

I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Curiosity is one of the permanent

and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Let us sacrifice our today

so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Failure is just a lesson,

not the end of the story.

Do I contradict myself?

Very well,

then I contradict myself,

I am large,

I contain multitudes.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is

to refresh them with new ones.

Be bold,

be fearless,

and say what needs to be said.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship

I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep;

I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Be courteous to all,

but intimate with few,

and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.