Related Quotes
spring cities rivers
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. Arthur Koestler
spring rocks government
Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her. Ben Jonson
spring thinking years
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. Abdallah II of Jordan
spring yoga thinking
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Dalai Lama
spring thinking government
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. Andrew Bacevich
spring training looks
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. Christy Mathewson
spring keys virtue
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
spring autumn heaven
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth. Soren Kierkegaard
spring men secret
Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory. Soren Kierkegaard
darkness difficult eyes lead light people standing tough
This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust. Jay Garner
dark diamond salesman
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. Arthur Miller
darkness shadow boogeyman
We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman. Anthony Hopkins
dark self age
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead
dark men race
Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus Alfred Lord Tennyson
dark negativity chance
If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance. Alfred Lord Tennyson
dark years age
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. Alexander Fleming
dark soil laboratory
That dark laboratory we call the soil. Aldo Leopold
dark glasses competition
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass... Aldous Huxley
shining tvs sun
The sun don't shine in your TV! Daniel Johnston
shining nonsense
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense. Robert Adams
shining celebrate existence
Celebrate your existence! William Blake
shining resistance example
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Salvatore Quasimodo
shining style gentleman
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. Charles Caleb Colton