Spped Quotes

I wanted to know the name of every stone

and flower and insect and bird and beast,

I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life

but there was no one to tell me.

In order for the light to shine so brightly,

the darkness must be present.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Without revolutionary theory

there can be no revolutionary movement.

Solitude is painful when one is young,

but delightful when one is more mature.

Nothing can harm you

as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

I’ve always been famous for doing my thing,

and I’m not about to stop.

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent,

and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do

and smart people to work with.

I know not age,

nor weariness nor defeat

Rose Kennedy

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I try to buy stock in businesses

that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.

Where there is

righteousness in the heart,

there is harmony in the house;

when there is

harmony in the house,

there is order in the nation;

when there is

order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.

Courage is resistance to fear,

mastery of fear,

not absence of fear.

I was a veteran,

before I was a teenager.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously

what the gods made for fun.

I had reasoned this out in my mind;

there was one of two things I had a right to,

liberty or death.

I want to go when I want.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.

I have done my share;

it is time to go.

I will do it elegantly.