Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899
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What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCThe strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790