True line Quotes

The difference between the almost right word

and the right word is really a large matter

'tis the difference between the lightning

bug and the lightning.

I’m just a kid from Akron,

trying to make the most of every opportunity.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended;

yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum

which God seeks to fill...

With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need

and the other in the hand of Christ,

He could get across the vacuum.

Education must not simply teach work

it must teach life.

Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

When you receive criticism, ask,

Are they right?

With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.

There are no strangers here;

only friends you haven’t yet met.

Friendship is always

a sweet responsibility,

never an opportunity.

The heavens and the earth,

the sun and the moon,

the stars and the planets,

all are in us.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when

they do it from religious conviction.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.

All is system and gradation.

Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Change is the law of life.

And those who look only to the past or present

are certain to miss the future.

I’m not concerned with awards.

I’m concerned with respect.

I never coach for the tie.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me.

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life

until it’s too late.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.