Before Stonewall Quotes & Sayings

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life. — Socrates

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place — Noam Chomsky

The power of giving life and taking by death belong to God alone. He won't allow what He hasn't already ordained. And since He fixed the number of days your mother would walk on this earth, neither you nor anyone could do anything to prolong it, not even if you helped in a dozen ways. — Jody Hedlund

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible. — Kurt Eichenwald

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding? — Beatrice Rose Roberts

Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were. — Bob Burg

... good things, things worth having, seemed to paradoxically work over time, like these colossal water-sculptured rocks- Or lone-standing trees along the stonewall the day of their walk. Sometimes even in a heated cacophony of pressure and turmoil before becoming a part of one's self, not just a smooth phrase on one's lips...
- "Past Imperfect — Kimberley James

In all men lie the greatest of contradictions. — Jason Michel

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual. — Pearl Cleage

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. — Jimmy Connors

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men. — Stonewall Jackson

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored! — Eckhart Tolle

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one. — Bill Gothard

For what is more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than how to please himself? To make himself the object of his own admiration? And yet, what is there that is either delightful or taking, nay rather what not the contrary, that a man does against the hair? Take away this salt of life, and the orator may even sit still with his action, the musician with all his division will be able to please no man, the player be hissed off the stage, the poet and all his Muses ridiculous, the painter with his art contemptible, and the physician with all his slip-slops go a-begging. Lastly, you will be taken for an ugly fellow instead of youthful, and a beast instead of a wise man, a child instead of eloquent, and instead of a well-bred man, a clown. So necessary a thing it is that everyone flatter himself and commend himself to himself before he can be commended by others. — Erasmus

Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes. — Ankita Singhal