Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

― Dante

 

[pornoboy]

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[cityboy-stl]

 

[Thad1527]

What's important is love, acceptance, support, and positivity. Those things can change lives and send a person in the right direction.

-Connie Hoying (mother of Scott Hoying of  Pentatonix)

 

[opinterph]

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

― Don Miguel Ruiz

 

[Alistair]

 

[cityboy-stl]

I suspect this isn't an actual quote, but it is highly accurate.

 

[TickTockMan]

"Because the innocent must suffer, not the guilty. This is America."

"Fugue in a Nursery," Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein

 

[opinterph]

“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

 

[Rand]

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[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”

― Lou Holtz

 

[Rand]

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.


Omar Nelson Bradley, 1893-1981
Permanent Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Armistice Day speech, 1948

 

[pornoboy]

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[cityboy-stl]

 

[Thad1527]

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." -James Baldwin

 

[Rand]

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."
Mark Twin in a letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899




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[Norri]

For he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samual Johnson

 

[opinterph]

“These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.”

― Ricky Martin

 

[Alistair]

“Why should the poor world be uglier than the rich world? The light here is the same as there. The dignity here is the same as there.”

— Sebastião Salgado