Sparatorie Quotes & Sayings

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed. — Tony Blair

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to. — Thomas Sowell

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness. — Barbara Park

There can never be enough written about heroic acts and heroic people, we all need the inspiration they give us. — Carey V. Azzara

They didn't know the first thing about Diem's tyranny, or the nature of Vietnamese nationalism, or the long colonialism of the French - this was all too damned complicated, it required some reading - but no matter, it was a war to stop the Communists, plain and simple, which was how they liked things, and you were a treasonous pussy if you had second thoughts about killing or dying for plain and simple reasons. I — Tim O'Brien

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then? — John Donne

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. — John Le Carre

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. — Charles Dickens

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person - flawed, complex, striving - you've reached beyond stereotype. — Hazel Rochman

Together we can do what we cannot do apart. — C.S. Pacat

Beautiful hands are those that do
Work in earnest and brave and true
Moment to Moment
All day through — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam