150th Gettysburg Quotes & Sayings

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. — Seneca The Younger

Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible. — Wayne W. Dyer

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense. — Herman Melville

The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. — Charles Spurgeon

We don't avoid the word... just the action. — Becca Ann

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination. "What — Zadie Smith

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. — Mahatma Gandhi

She imagined that each of them saw the story in a different light based on their own experience, or lack of it. That, then, was the beauty of opera to her. Giving the gift of a performance, of song that was transformed after it left her mouth into a different story for each member of the audience as it entered their thoughts, each night, dependent only on their unique and hidden inner needs. — J.J. Brown

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right. — Woody Allen