Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. —Jacob A. Riis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The good thing about adversity is that it teaches one to learn how to handle more adversity. —Isabel Martin Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all need a little courage now and then. That's what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you. Your criticisms you can keep to yourself. —Marvin Bell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. —Janeane Garofalo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. —Earl Warren More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. —Jan de Hartog More about this quote Tags: error mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes. —Margaret Lee Runbeck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense . . . was that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion demanded that they should burn none at all. —Maurice Maeterlinck More about this quote Tags: opinion reason moderation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. —David Harris More about this quote Tags: revolution decency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope . . . and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. —Robert F. Kennedy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: government patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future. But we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: hope future tragedy habit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I bet, after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father. —Will Rogers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who would be friends with God must remain alone or make the whole world his friend. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email