Seymoure Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act. — Michel Foucault

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love. — Joe Budden

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also. — Ralph Abernathy

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. — Oswald Chambers

She believed that friendships, to begin well, had to stand on mutual information and lots of it. — Ruth Sawyer

St. Vincent was far too clever to rely on physical violence when a few well-chosen words would skewer someone with a minimum of fuss. — Lisa Kleypas

I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything.
To dry tears even when I am still crying.
To believe even when I am discredited. — Paulo Coelho

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness, and caprice. — Emil Cioran

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it. — Mario Cuomo