“There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 53 of 313
“If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.”
“Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.”
“Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.”
“What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.”
“I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?”
“We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.”
“We still did not answer the questions that are important to us”
“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.”
“A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.”
“What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?”
“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”
“Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.”
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”
“Look around less, imagine more.”
“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
“Beauty can inspire miracles.”
“By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.”
“A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.”
“Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”