Quotes June 17, 2021

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi – 1869-1948 – Lawyer-Nationalist
 
 
 
 
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
Billie Jean King,
professional tennis player
 
 
 
 
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas Sowell
 
 
 
 
I took the speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It’s about Russia.
Woody Allen
 
 
 
 
“You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.”
Lupita Nyong’o
 
 
 
 
“Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.”
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
 
 
 
 
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 
“We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus
 
 
 
 
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Unknown
 
 
 
 
You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.
Unknown