Sestroyetsk Quotes & Sayings

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat. — Bruce Lee

I do not assert that the ostensible end, or even that the secret aim, of American parties is to promote the rule of aristocracy or democracy in the country; but I affirm that aristocratic or democratic passions may easily be detected at the bottom of all parties, and that, although they escape a superficial observation, they are the main point and the very soul of every faction in the United States. — Alexis De Tocqueville

When all of our talk about politics is either technical or strategic, to say nothing of partisan and polarizing, we loosen or sever the human connections on which empathy, accountability, and democracy itself depend. If we cannot talk about politics in the language of the heart - if we cannot be publicly heartbroken, for example, that the wealthiest nation on earth is unable to summon the political will to end childhood hunger at home - how can we create a politics worthy of the human spirit, one that has a chance to serve the common good? — Parker J. Palmer

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. — Joan Didion

Never let the evil people do to you turn you to monster. It can't be all that's left of you. — Darmie Orem