Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor --because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.
Angela Y. Davis
Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! As Margo Channing in All About Eve
Bette Davis
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
I like not the smell of this “authorityâ€
John Proctor
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Joseph Butler
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
Esther Williams
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
Glenn Beck
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
Joel Osteen
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Hale White
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.
Ian Hay
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Louise L. Hay
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa
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