David Brin Famous Quotes
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
David Brin Quotations
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
"Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now."
Raymond Smullyan
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
Elbert Hubbard
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Arthur Baldwin
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Sextus Propertius
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
Sophocles
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J K Rowling
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King Jr