There’s no reason to be non-violent. There’s no challenge unless you are living for people.
CESAR CHAVEZWhoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
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The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY -
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS -
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL -
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
GORE VIDAL -
A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
CHANAKYA -
The one thing I wished for my children is that they’d be readers.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN -
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKA -
Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
BO BURNHAM -
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONO -
Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states – Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America’s Saudi Arabia.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
KABIR -
No star is lost once we have seen
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER -
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
GOLDA MEIR -
I have to work, for my soul.
JENNIFER LOPEZ