Freenote Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system. — Michael Franti

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

In a letter to Gouverneur Morris (February 27, 1802), he drops into the following gloomy forebodings: -

"Mine is an odd destiny. Perhaps no man in the United States has sacrificed or done more for the present Constitution than myself; and, contrary to all my anticipations of its fate, as you know, from the very beginning, I am still laboring to prop the frail and worthless fabric. Yet I have the murmurs of its friends no less than the curses of its foes for my reward. What can I do better than withdraw from the scene? Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me. — Charles A. Conant

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble. — Charles Sumner

A boy, Ranga, is tomorrow's world the day after tomorrow. — Ian B.G. Burns

We can't change out pasts. All we can change is the future. — Sylvain Reynard

I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out. — Sophia Loren

No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire? — Margaret Cho

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision. — Henri Nouwen