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- Benjamin Disraeli
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, Quirky Quote
Okay, now I'm going to bed.
Labels: Feel Goods, Humor, Quotes
Ten Things This Tuesday
I woke up knowing what my TTTT was going to be:
Ten African-American quotes:
1. "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." - W. E. B. Du Bois
2. "The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to." - Marian Wright Edelman
3. "I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." - Zora Neale Huston
4. "We have come over a way that with tears has
been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the
blood of the slaughtered." - James Weldon Johnson
5. "I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
6. "American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen." - Toni Morrison
7. "The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that's where it's at." - Jesse Owens
8. "Freedom is never given; it is won." - A. Phillip Randolph
9. "No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around." - Bessie Smith
10. "When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything." - Harriet Tubman
Labels: Quotes, Ten Things This Tuesday
In a Quoting Mood, huh...
"The closest sound to Roseanne Barr's singing the national Anthem was my cat being neutered." - Johnny Carson
"Violence is as American as cherry pie." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Baron Lytton
"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill." - Thomas Alva Edison
"The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you." - Nancy Astor
"It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do." - Jerome K. Jerome
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet
"To refuse praise reveals a desire to be praised twice over." - Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't and that's a wife who can't cook and will." - Robert Frost
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself." - Tommy John
Labels: Feel Goods, Humor, Quotes, Thoughts
Just So You Know...
"Intelligence is almost useless - Alexis Carrel
I'm still here. I just am going through finals week. don't give up on me, y'all. I still loves you. Here's a pic I took just for you!
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I went on a tour of the Eudora Welty house. I was unable to take pics inside, but I found a few things outside to take. I clearly have a peculiar eye for things, but I hope you like this shot...
Quotes Worth Their Own Posts
- Oscar Wilde
"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."
- Charles Dudley Warner
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less."
- Charles Lamb
"When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
- Indian Proverb
Labels: Quotes
A Quote Worth Its Own Post...
and never knew it until at that moment
I was lifted and struck."
- Annie Dillard
Bad Predictions
"To us who think in terms of practical use, the splitting of the atom means nothing." - British science writer Lord Richie Calder, 1932.
"A manned lunar base will be in existence by 1986." - The Futurist, 1967.
In 1974 the U.S. Forest Service published a study on "Future Leisure Environments." The authors believed that by 1989 American public schools would be open year-round and vacations would be staggered throughout the year.
"Beams of atomic radiation, instead of saws, cut lumber [in 1999]." - Victor Cohn, 1999 Our Hopeful Future, 1954.
"A road sign of the future is likely to read "No wheeled vehicles on this highway.' Cars without wheels will float on air, bringing about the passing of the wheel." - scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke's 1975 vision of transportation in 2000.
"Women will never want the right of suffrage - that is, there will not be enough of them that want it to even encourage the menfolk to give it to them." - humorist Bill Nye, 1893.
"The more I read, the more convinced I am that some economic disruptions are inevitable. The year 2000 problem is a serious threat to the global economy. Yet it isn't being taken seriously enough." - economist Edward Yardeni in Computer World, 1997. He stated there was a 30% chance Y2K would cause a worldwide recession. He later upped his prediction to 60%.
"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." - Business Week, 1979
Labels: Quotes
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"There is nothing so strong or safe,
in any emergency of life, as simple truth."
- Charles Dickens
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"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- Japanese Proverb
"When the doors of perception are cleansed, everything appears as it truly is - infinite."
- William Blake
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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage… it is only we mortals who
ring bells and fire off pistols."
- Thomas Mann
