Spertus Landes Quotes & Sayings

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people. — Bebe Moore Campbell

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. — Michael Martone

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle.

Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small. — Laurie Helgoe

The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman". — Robert H. Jackson

The overriding thing has to be a love for people. If you don't love people, you don't care if we live in a morally degrading society. Christ is about love, and that's what we want to be about as well. — Lance Berkman

It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure. — Seth Klarman

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends. — John C. Calhoun

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation — Dale Carnegie

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system. — Nicole Kidman

The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form. — Harry Belafonte

What we need is not good human beings; we need sensible human beings. — Sadhguru

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause. — Horace Mann

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses ... we engaged a spy. — Zebulon Pike

They made us participate in their own madness,
because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us. — Jeffrey Eugenides