Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that. —Erich Heller More about this quote Tags: perception care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. —Kenneth Clark More about this quote Tags: war cynicism destruction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the Garrick Club (a famous London club of which several leading actors were members) on New Year's Eve, Freddy Lonsdale was asked by Seymour Hicks to make up over a quarrel he had previously had with one of his fellow members. "You must," Seymour said. "It is very unkind to be unfriendly at such a time. Go over now and wish him a happy New Year." Freddy crossed the room and spoke to his enemy. "I wish you a happy New Year," he said, "but only one. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: friendship humor quarrel new year Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to fly into a passion — anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way — that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: passion anger right time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. —Harper Lee More about this quote Tags: democracy conscience popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace. —Linda Hogan More about this quote Tags: peace weapons children bombs death shock despair Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: power change difference possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. —Daniel Berrigan More about this quote Tags: hope suffering loss service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Action is the antidote to despair. —Joan Baez More about this quote Tags: action despair Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway. —Robert Henri More about this quote Tags: power continuing helplessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have men loosening the nails on Noah's ark. —Robert Bly More about this quote Tags: cynicism safety sabatoge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water is too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, the schools are so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: money environmentalism water air city streets schools Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Change isn't always for the best. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away. —Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller More about this quote Tags: choice wrong reason convenience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email