Anne Elizabeth O Hare McCormick Famous Quotes
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
Anne Elizabeth O Hare McCormick Quotations
"I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind."
Bryant Gumbel
"Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare."
John Dryden
"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
Lawrence Peter Berra
"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."
Elizabeth KublerRoss
"For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go."
Omar Khayym
The past is the tomorrow that got away.
Leonard L Levinson
"...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it."
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
Alexander Smith
"Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
Hellen Keller