Silent Achievers Quotes & Sayings

I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is ... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct. — Edward Kennedy

A little toxin is the best tonic. — David P. Gontar

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them? — Paramahansa Yogananda

Feeling better doesn't come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood. — Meg Jay

If you want to keep giving you have to keep growing. — John C. Maxwell

Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being? This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library! — Ben Affleck

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends. — Plato

I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes. — Jennifer Johnston

I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances? — Cynthia Hand

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real — Ramana Maharshi

If you want to free your soul, you acknowledge that there is a spiritual order that God has designed for you. You are not the center of the universe. You are not the master of your fate. You are not the captain of your ship. There is a God, and you aren't him. True freedom comes when you embrace God's overall design for the world and your place in it. This is why in the Bible you see this strong connection between God's law and soul-freedom. — John Ortberg