33511 Quotes & Sayings

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? — William Matthews

You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen. — Kevin Ware

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free. — Niccolo Machiavelli

What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,
what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform! — Douglas William Jerrold