I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than of an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. —Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. —I.F. Stone More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You said, "They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people." "What," I asked you, "is harmless about a dreamer, and what," I asked you, "is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. —Lorraine Hansberry More about this quote Tags: loneliness exceptional Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: satisfaction judgement conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. —Dame Edith Sitwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
El Tornillo walks the streets of Melo. People in town think he's crazy. He carries a mirror in his hand and he looks at himself with furrowed brow. He doesn't take his eyes off the mirror. "What are you doing, Tornillo?" "I'm here," he says, "keeping watch on the enemy. —Eduardo Galeano More about this quote Tags: self eyes enemy mirror Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. —Tom Masson More about this quote Tags: advice humor self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not all forms of commitment . . . are equally healthy. The grand inquisitors of the medieval Catholic Church were utterly dedicated to their "holy" work, and Hitler and many of his associates were fanatically committed to their Nazi doctrines. —Albert Ellis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. —Alban Goodier More about this quote Tags: pessimism enthusiasm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Henry Thoreau was languishing in jail after he had refused to pay the Massachusetts poll tax in 1843 [to protest the Mexican-American War]. Ralph Waldo Emerson came to visit him and asked him why he was there. "Waldo, why are you not here?" said Thoreau. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You'll never have your happy ending unless you're brave enough to open the book and start your story. —L.B. Simmons in Running on Empty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else. —Mary Balogh in The Devil's Web More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email