Use Quotes - Page 91

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away!

The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

Hulk Hogan, you may be a household word, but so is garbage, and it stinks when it gets old too.

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.

If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.