Tolerates Def Quotes & Sayings

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced? — Nelson Mandela

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22). — Eugene H. Peterson

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat? — Carroll Bryant

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational. — Frank Herbert

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me. — Audrey Niffenegger

Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness. — Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education. — Martin O'Malley

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term. — Francois Hollande

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource. — Ziggy Marley

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards. — Fritz Leiber