1924 Election Quotes & Sayings

He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem. — Nick Hornby

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. — Eric Hoffer

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them! — Mary Wortley Montagu

Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains of Appalachia for thousands of years? That to me is an abomination, although it is the way of men. — Bruce Lee Bond

Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear. — Jenny Downham

I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being. — Bruce Dern

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder. — Ruth Ozeki

Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it. — Jo Walton

Every time you make a contribution to an organization purported searching for a "cure,' such as the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the United Way, or any other such institution, you are helping maintain the status quo. Plus, you are helping researchers torture, usually for years and always for no reason, millions of helpless, innocent animals. — Paige Singleton

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat. — Buzz Aldrin

I thought you said scrying was a bad idea."
"It's like vodka," Calla said. "It really depends on who's doing it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Prosperity comes to those who observe the law of tithing. — Heber J. Grant

It may not be the happiness we had before, it may feel like a lesser version of it for a time, we may not even feel it some days at all. But we have to believe more will come. We have to hope. — Orson Scott Card

Where are you? Here
What time is it? Now
What are you? This moment. — Dan Millman