Random Quotes
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This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.John F. Kennedy, 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khrushchev that he agreed on a plan to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.James Thurber
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.Havelock Ellis