Mario Van Peebles Famous Quotes
"History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield."
Mario Van Peebles Quotations
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
John Keats
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say."
John Ernst Steinbeck
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
Peter York
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
Archie Griffin
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.
Josef Stalin
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
"Ask, and it shall be given you Seek, and ye shall find Knock, and it shall be opened unto you."
Bible
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld