A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QUINTILIANIt said that a lot of people, when they die, they see this light. Like in a tunnel. They say it’s the light leadin’ you to heaven.
More Wyatt Earp Quotes
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Being grown up kinda sucks and I’m really just missin the simple times.
KACEY MUSGRAVES -
Everything is energy. What are you emitting? What are you reciprocating?
OVYUKI -
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
DWIGHT L. MOODY -
I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
SUMAYA ENYEGUE -
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL -
I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTER -
You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPP -
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.
HAN FEI -
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONE -
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
THOMAS HARDY -
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER -
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
ADAM GOPNIK -
Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
MICHELLE OBAMA -
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
EZRA TAFT BENSON