Firecrackers Good Quotes & Sayings

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned. — Lucy Stone

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. — Dan Webster

The most lethal of manmade explosives can't touch it. Stand in awe not of Communism, my idiot child, but of ordinary, everyday loneliness. On May Day go out and march with your friends to its greater glory, the superpower of superpowers. — Philip Roth

He was overawed by her open, fearless affection. Was this why people liked friendship so much? — Nina George

That which is achieved the most, still has the whole of its future yet to be achieved. — Laozi

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume. — Hedda Hopper

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins. — Stuart Chase

It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true. — Michael Schur

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood. — Neil MacGregor

The Nightingale has sung — Kristin Hannah

Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her. — Kate Cooper

Across a world where all men grieve
And grieving strive the more,
The great days range like tides and leave
Our dead on every shore. — Rudyard Kipling

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. — Edward Gibbon

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. — James Beard

She braced one palm on the wall and used the other to bring him inside her more forcefully, tearing away the last bit of civility between them. Her body yielded under his pummeling strokes. Stretching around him, drawing him in that much farther. She couldn't get close enough. — Cari Quinn