Scourged Back Quotes & Sayings

I'm doing my job. I'm doing what's expected out of me, and I'm proud of the way I've been able to perform and contribute. — Pau Gasol

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. — Garrett Hardin

I couldn't buy my way - I had to work my way. What a great quote: 'I couldn't buy my way into success, I had to work my way into success.' — Stewart Rahr

Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people
is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see
anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its
brother death, seem so contented. — Sinclair Lewis

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. — Arthur Ashe

let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart of the poor slave - learn his secret thoughts - thoughts he dare not utter in the hearing of the white man; — Solomon Northup

The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and promotes the people's interests, is the nation's treasure. — Sun Tzu

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted. — Jean Houston

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends. — Margaret Atwood

Nonetheless, by the time we arrive at the eighteenth century and the time of the founders, marriage and the family came to look very much as Aristotle had pictured it. In the previous centuries, Lutheran reforms had lodged marriage into the civil structure of society and made it more a concern of civil law,11 but, joined by Calvin, Protestantism retained parental control over the right of children to marry. John Locke, however, saw marriage as contracted political society, and thus his image of the family as a commonwealth made up of combined individuals parallel his image of the formation of the larger political commonwealth as well.12 Furthermore, Locke declares that parents are, "by the law of nature, under an obligation to preserve, nourish and educate" their children.13 Since government is instituted to enforce the laws of nature, Locke states that government should make laws that enforce "the security of the marriage bed.'14 What — Jean Bethke Elshtain

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain. — Nick Murray

Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks. — Margaret Thatcher

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind ... There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it. — Dorothy Parker

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory! — Sivananda

Rev. King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to each other and for each other.
We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the honor of the country. We, the most hated, must take hate into our hands and by the miracle of love, turn loathing into love. We, the most feared and apprehensive, must take fear and by love, change it into hope. We, who die daily in large and small ways, must take the demon death and turn it into Life.
His head was thrown back and his words rolled out with the rumbling of thunder. We had to pray without ceasing and work without tiring. We had to know evil will not forever stay on the throne. That right, dashed to the ground, will rise, rise again and again. — Maya Angelou

My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight. — Ursula K. Le Guin