If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.
Grover Cleveland
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
William Jefferson Clinton
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Danny Glover
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.
It's the economy, stupid.
Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.
Jarvis Cocker
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
Arthur H. Clough
And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.
Martina McBride
Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency:Swear not at all; for for thy curseThine enemy is none the worse:At church on Sunday to attendWill serve to keep the world thy friend:Honour thy parents; that is, allFrom whom advancement may befall:Thou shalt not kill; but needst not striveOfficiously to keep alive:Do not adultery commit;Advantage rarely comes of it:Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,When its so lucrative to cheat:Bear not false witness: let the lieHave time on its own wings to fly:Thou shalt not covet; but traditionApproves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love,If any body, God above:At any rate shall never labourMore than thyself to love thy neighbour.
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
John Keegan
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
Marguerite Duras
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour
I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.
Barack Obama
Life is a horizontal fall.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
Serena Williams
The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
Doug E. Fresh
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