Jeffery Amherst Quotes & Sayings

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in. — Dwight L. Moody

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole. — Stephen Schwartz

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost ... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre ... — H.L. Mencken

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever. — Alok Jagawat

Don't do anything stupid. — Jeffrey R. Holland

If we ask, we should also be prepared to give. — Stephen Richards

The best vitality Cannot excel decay; — Emily Dickinson

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk. — Kevin Rudd

your hands
humming hurricanes
of beauty. — Sonia Sanchez