Texas Revolution Famous Quotes & Sayings

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity. — Willis R. Whitney

For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need. — Alex Callinicos

If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series. — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

My longest love affair: with a book. — Rebecca Mead

For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power. — Joyce Carol Oates

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth
it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else. — Miguel Ruiz

You, still the squanderers of the empty hall
when the twilight comes, wide as woods ...
And the chandelier, like a sixteen-pointer, vaults
where nothing can set foot. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields. — Mahatma Gandhi

Oh, I have known a few that did want to stop. And I have known a few that did stop. And it ended the same, whether they wanted to or not. — Robin Hobb

If you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven't made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them. It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time. Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the fellowship of His labor. Don't delay. It's getting late. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Spirit is strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do! — Fred Rogers

The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances. — Thomas Pynchon

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't. — Amy Purdy