Bryan Stevenson Ted Talk Quotes & Sayings

Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form ... try another, then another, until the race is done. — Jerry Lynch

Rough rides are smoother when you've got a passenger who understands the road. — R.K. Ryals

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. — Laura Marling

A man sat down by a tree every day for 2 weeks. It was a beautiful Wisteria tree with purple flowers. Every day, around the same time, he would come to the park and sit by this tree. On the fourteenth day, he came to the park and approached the tree and as he sat down, he closed his eyes as he always did. Only this time when he opened them, the tree withered and died before him. The man then looked around and before he knew it, he had found that he never came to the tree at all, but was in an asylum the whole time. — Justin Bienvenue

Because you were everything. You weren't one night, one experience I had to record for proof that it happened. You were so much more than that. I didn't write about you because I took it for granted that I would always have you. — Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way ... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Those who don't know must learn from those who do. — Plato

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable. — Anne Roiphe

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. — Richard Parks Bland

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? — Max Lucado