Third Estate French Revolution Quotes & Sayings

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Time is mutable! Time changes! Take your time, but, as much as possible; don't forget to take all the chances in your life time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost... — Priya Basil

He still had dreams about it. Certainly not nightmares - it could not be worth the energy. But every month or so he woke up from one of those annoying visions where he was back at school (rather absurdly at his current age of eight-and-twenty). It was always of a similar nature. He looked down at his schedule and suddenly realized he'd forgotten to attend Latin class for an entire term. Or arrived for an exam without his trousers. — Julia Quinn

Should I just die? The decision struck me as premature. — Michel Houellebecq

She said, "Your approach is wrong. You're writing an essay rather than creating a literary figure. What a literary character does in ten minutes might be a reflection of ten years' experience. You can't be limited to the plot of a novel - you've got to imagine her entire life, and what actually gets put into words is just the tip of the iceberg." So — Liu Cixin

Been to yesterdays,
lived through todays.
Looking on toward tomorrows -
new characters, new plays.
The whys of life change,
and so do ways,
new scenery is built,
to fill an empty stage. — Lee Bennett Hopkins

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization's improvement potential lies in front-line ideas. — Alan G. Robinson

If things did not move on and vanish, we should see no beauty anywhere.

If youth had only the heat of movement, it would get parched and withered. But there is ever the hidden tear, which keeps it fresh.

The cry of the world is not only "I have," but also "I give." In the first dawning light of creation, "I have" was wedded to "I give." If this bond of union were to snap, then everything would go to ruin. — Rabindranath Tagore

Knowing how to get the right things done - how to be personally effective, leading and managing ourselves well - is indeed biblical, spiritual, and honoring to the Lord. It is not unspiritual to think about the concrete details of how to get things done; rather, this is a significant component of Christian wisdom. — Matt Perman

For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma. — John Steinbeck

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky. — Anthony Horowitz

Failure makes the success worth it. — Beth Revis

I write because I love how I feel to have written. — Carol Lynch Williams

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower