The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEFull of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
MADAME DE STAEL -
The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
When you reach a point where you say I really don’t miss it. You have healed.
REBEKAH STERLACCI -
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.
GILBERT RYLE -
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
TORI AMOS -
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
BO JACKSON -
I thought my teeth were white until I washed my face with Noxzema. My teeth are off-white. I’m not even white. I’m off-white. It’s a new race; we will prevail!
MITCH HEDBERG -
I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
BILLY BOYD -
An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who’s on minimum wage.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD -
How many wounds can you convert to wisdom? How much pain to power can you permute and fathom? This is your story; rewrite how it’s written.
ALETHEIA LIOLA -
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
IMAM ALI -
My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.
RIHANNA -
It’s really easy with makeup to look like you’re trying too hard, like a clown. That’s not what you want!
BECKY G -
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH