If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: politics power television control press domination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. —Harry Emerson Fosdick More about this quote Tags: power focus discipline dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit. —Thomas Aquinas in De Veritate More about this quote Tags: truth source Holy Spirit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems. —Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary More about this quote Tags: problems fathers appendix Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it. —Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary More about this quote Tags: knowledge show Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. —James Clerk Maxwell More about this quote Tags: freedom enjoyment work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force. —W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk More about this quote Tags: success vision Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. —Jimmy Carter More about this quote Tags: strength weakness USA boasting insecurity restraint Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. —Stephen Covey More about this quote Tags: priorities schedule Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: action thinking goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. —Richard Rohr in The Universal Christ More about this quote Tags: God safety grace revelation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. —Shakuntala Devi More about this quote Tags: math numbers everywhere Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: future past perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn? —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: life learning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: words communication fighting kisses punches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email