Short Proactive Quotes & Sayings

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. — William J. Brennan Jr.

Few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion. — Vera Brittain

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. — Brian Greene

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. - Arthur Rimbaud — Cassandra Clare

From the bluffs east of the city, Gladstone, Montana looks as though it could have been laid out by a shotgun blast, the commercial and residential districts a tight cluster in the center and then the buckshot dispersing in the looser pattern of outlying houses and businesses owned by those Montanans for whom space is a stronger article of faith than neighborliness. — Larry Watson

The Lord calls us to love all people, including those who are enemies of the gospel and those who blaspheme. This may not be comfortable, and it may not be easy, but this is the gospel of Christ, for He loved His enemies so much that He died to save us. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. — Marcia Muller

The Earth is a beautiful planet. The space station is a great vantage point to observe it and share our planet in pictures. It makes you more of an environmentalist. — Scott Kelly

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. — Adam Haslett

A man really ought to say, 'The Resurrection happened two thousand years ago' in the same spirit in which he says, 'I saw a crocus yesterday.' Because we know what is coming behind the crocus. — C.S. Lewis

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with. — Danielle Steel

I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids ... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that. — John McCain

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place. — John C. Maxwell

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack. — William Hague