“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
―Woody Allen
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them…-Sir Thomas More
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing you enthusiasm”
-Sir Winston Churchill
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
―Andre Gile
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ―Douglas Adams
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do.”
-Lou Holtz
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the
service of my vision, then it becomes less and less
important whether I am afraid.
— Audre Lorde
“If you can only feel tall if someone else is on their knees then you have a problem” Tony Morrison
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you spend to much money on sports and not enough on education, your saying fuck the future”
-Jamira Burley
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
-Aristotle
I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
