Category: Quotations

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels.  For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.H.L. Mencken

The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job.  The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss.Diane Ravitch

I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.Dr. Paul O.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy WarholWe all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.Harrison FordThe more things change, the more they remain… insane.Michael Fry and T. Lewis

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.Bertha CallowayLaughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on.Bob NewhartI think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.Christopher Reeve

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Climate of Man,” New Yorker, May 9 2005

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops—at all.Emily Dickinson