“A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 63 of 1106
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
“The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”
“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
“You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.”
“We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations”
“The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
“What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”
“The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.”
“Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.”
“Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!”
“Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.”
“Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.”
“The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.”
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
“The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.”
“Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.”