Ray Dickinson Famous Quotes



"It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power."


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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis

Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Hubert Humphrey

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton

"What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns."
Alain

"Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it."
Luke Salisbury

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."
John le Carre