Randolph Bourne Famous Quotes
"We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living."
"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."
"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
Randolph Bourne Quotations
"Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure."
Portuguese Proverb
"It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about."
Oprah Winfrey
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty"
Emma Lazarus
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.
Clive Staples Lewis
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B DeMille
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
"Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength."
W T Ussery
"I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Arthur Baldwin