Ardentide Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you. — Myles Horton

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp — Ai Weiwei

In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time. — Hank Aaron

Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. — Che Guevara

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. — David Dinkins

This book is to be read in bed. — Dr. Seuss

You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this? — Howard Korder

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. — Bernard Baruch

We would have met again some other time or in some other place,' he said. 'We would have been given other chances. Life recognizes the unpredictability of our movements in any given life. Somehow we would have met, Jane. We were determined that it would be so before we entered this life. — Mary Balogh

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them? — Holly Black

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same — Chief Joseph

What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result of oversaving, which could no longer find productive investment within national borders. For the first time, investment of power did not pave the way for investment of money, since uncontrollable investments in distant countries threatened to transform large strata of society into gamblers, to change the whole capitalist economy from a system of production to a system of financial speculation, and to replace the profits of production with profits in commissions. The decade immediately before the imperialist era, the seventies of the last century, witnessed an unparalleled increase in swindles, financial scandals, and gambling in the stock market. — Hannah Arendt

Don't you know
That lovers make the rains,
Call forth the sun,
Re-route hurricanes,
And exorcise earthquakes for fun. — James Kavanaugh

Every day in life is beautiful ... every day! — Alice Herz-Sommer