Apess William Quotes & Sayings

carpe diem (seize the day)

Enjoy! Enjoy! — Horace

You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers' crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them one to another. We can only regret it, and flee from it, and from henceforth, let peace and righteousness be written upon our hearts and hands forever. — William Apess

Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing. — Jools Holland

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are. — Lady Gaga

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are. — Sharon Gannon

We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up? — Helen Hollick

I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick. — J.K. Rowling

We want trumpets that sound like thunder, and men to act as though they were going to war with those corrupt and degrading principles that rob one of all rights, merely because he is ignorant, and of a little different color. Let us have principles that will give every one his due; and then shall wars cease, and the weary find rest. — William Apess

Naked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself. — Clara

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. — William Apess

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven, but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have desired anything else. — C.S. Lewis

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles ... The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us. — Martin Luther