Toldthat Quotes & Sayings

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants. — Poul Anderson

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves. — Marion Woodman

You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom. — Henri Murger

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. — Timothy Noah

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. — Victor Hugo

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind ... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction. — Vernon Howard

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually. — John F. Kennedy

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — Lauren Oliver

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. — J. P. Morgan