72nd Independence Day Quotes & Sayings

The act of giving with love opens the door of abundance. — Debasish Mridha

I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie — Jim Holt

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. — Jerome K. Jerome

Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, 'It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe

This is strength; this is peace; to feel, in entering on every day, that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus - that, come what may, He will use us for His own glory and our real good! — John Gibson Paton

Let joy of the Lord make you rejoice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew. — Eric Williams

There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress. — Carl Levin

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation. — Gabrielle Roth

If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for. — James Edwin Gunn

Jack Sparrow: [after Will draws his sword] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.

Will Turner: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.

Jack Sparrow: That's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it? — Jack Sparrow

I stared back at her, my eyes leveled with hers in inscrutable certainty. For a moment, our eyes remained engaged, unflinching and impenetrable, as the shrill, steady call of a siren ran across the street outside, mixing with the effervescent glow of traffic lights and a steady pitter-patter of pedestrian feet sauntering across the street in wakeful gait. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

It is my experience that bold decisions give the best promise of success. But one must differentiate between [strategic] and tactical boldness and a military gamble. A bold operation is one in which success is not a certainty but which in case of failure leaves one with sufficient forces in hand to cope with whatever situation may arise. A gamble, on the other hand, is an operation which can lead either to victory or to the complete destruction of one's force. Situations can arise where even gamble may be justified - as, for instance, when in the normal course of events defeat is merely a matter of time, when the gaining of time is therefore pointless and the only chance lies in an operation of great risk. — Erwin Rommel