Quotes & Sayings About The Second Continental Congress

I find some things difficult to grasp. I need to be shown or taught a few different ways sometimes before I figure it out — Tina J. Richardson

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better. — Geoffrey Canada

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all. — Sophocles

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it. — Wade Davis

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse. — William James

Of the approximately nine hundred thousand Palestinians living in the territories designated by the UN as a Jewish state, only one hundred thousand remained on or near their lands and homes. Those who remained became the Palestinian minority in Israel. The rest were expelled, or fled under the threat of expulsion, and a few thousand died in massacres. — Noam Chomsky

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. — Orville Wright

May the roads we travel never lead us astray, but if by chance we lose our way, may the echoes of laughter guide us back home some day. — Pamela Sparkman

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause. — Victor Hugo

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body. — John Arbuthnot

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss. — Gunter Grass

It was amazing and frightening what humans were capable of. — Lori Brighton

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. — Nick Hornby

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. — Criss Jami