Collective Soul Song Quotes & Sayings

The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more. — David K. Shipler

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? — Soren Kierkegaard

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over? — Sophocles

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. — John F. Kennedy

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at. — Nicholas Brendon

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven't been clever enough to reduce 'it' to its essence. — Phil Dourado

I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why? — Alfred Lord Tennyson

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,
muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's such a fine line between defeat and losing. — Gary Newbon

God (says he), who created all things very good, foreknew that evil would arise out of that good; and He also knew that His glorious and omnipotent goodness would be the more highly exalted by His producing good out of evil, than by His not permitting evil to be at all. He ordained the life of angels and of men, that He might first of all make it manifest by that life what free will could do, and then afterwards show what the blessing of His grace and the judgment of His justice could do. — John Calvin