Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Enlightenment Quotes & Sayings

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day. — Cindy Sheehan

To wait for a year to gain a pearl, is better than collecting pebbles everyday. — Yasser Kashef

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer. — Robert Dallek

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. — Daniel H. Pink

Freedom creates fear. People talk about freedom, but they are afraid. And a man is not yet a man if he is afraid of freedom. I give you freedom; I don't give you security. I give you understanding; I don't give you knowledge. Knowledge will make you certain. If I can give you a formula, a set formula, that there is a God and there is a Holy Ghost and there is an only begotten son, Jesus; there is hell and heaven, and these are the good acts and these are the bad acts; do the sin and you will be in hell, do what I call the virtuous acts and you will be in heaven - finished! - then you are certain. That's why so many people have chosen to be Christians, to be Hindus, to be Mohammedans, to be Jainas - they don't want freedom, they want fixed formulas. — Osho

Can We Be Sure We Will Go to Heaven? — Billy Graham

M: Is he smart
I: She yes very smart sees right through me
M: In my day we valued blindness rather more — Anne Carson

I couldn't just start killing people. That wasn't really my thing. — H.D. Smith

Springtime to me used to mean doing things - bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like the fulfillment of a divine promise. — Willem Lange

We have access to more resources in general, and they are not going to force a situation on us, whether its the producer, or the cover, or what songs we have to play. And it's a small enough company that it seems like the people there care about music and not just about business. — Mike Gordon