“I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.”
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“The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.”
“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
“Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.”
“Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.”
“I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.”
“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.”
“All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.”
“Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.”
“Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.”
“I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.”
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
“Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.”
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
“And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?”
“There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.”
“If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day”
“The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.”
“When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.”
“There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.”