Zenon The Zequel Quotes & Sayings

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? — Kahlil Gibran

Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage. — Nayantara Sahgal

I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader. — Steve Largent

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent. — Miles Davis

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk. — Laurence J. Peter

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth ... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying. — Pauli Murray

Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person. — John Bingham

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him. — Abraham Lincoln

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned. — Ellen Goodman