Pertini Lego Quotes & Sayings

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire — Gordon Dahlquist

In short, God will either give us what we ask or give us what we would have asked if we knew everything he knew. — Timothy Keller

Ever since it formed, the Tea Party has struck me as a kind of weird generational echo, forty years on, of the young leftists of the late 1960s. The 1960s leftists, like the Tea Party now, had unrealistic goals and were hostile to compromise. Both saw themselves as cultural forces up against a shadowy establishment. Both treated politics as street theater and had a curious fondness for using violent rhetoric and making apocalyptic pronouncements. Generationally speaking, the 1960s Left and the Right of today are the same group... p. 232 — Mike Lofgren

Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don't follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the 'trigger event,' we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice. — John G. Miller

Everything that you've been thru, God's going to use it for the betterment of your future! — Dale C. Bronner

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! — Friedrich Nietzsche

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight. — Mooji

My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life. — Sonny Barger

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people. — Charlie Sheen

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them. — Nathaniel Branden

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy. — Chris Bohjalian

Abstinence is easier than temperance. — Seneca The Younger

If we thus recognise
that the aim is to equip the group with the
attributes of the individual, we shall be reminded
of a valuable remark of Trotter's, to the effect that
the tendency towards the formation of groups is biologically
a continuation of the multicellular character
of all the higher organisms. — Sigmund Freud

Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word. — Adam Langer

I think when you know so deep in your heart that you just to listen to your intuition and follow your heart, theres no right or wrong thing to do. — Kim Kardashian