"From
Watergate we learned what generations before us have known: our Constitution works. And during the WaterGate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one – absolutely no one – is above the law."
~~ Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski [1905-82]
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. And if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
~~ Robert Mueller
"The cold never bothered me anyway."
~~ Queen Elsa of Arendelle character in the Disney movie "Frozen"
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
~~ Henry Ward Beecher [1813-87]
"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
~~ Marcus Aurelius [121-180 C.E.]
"Stupidity [is] a fellow traveler of catastrophe."
~~
New Mexico blogger V.B. Price
"It is known that personal identity resides in memory, and the annulment of that faculty is known to result in idiocy."
~~ Jorge Luis Borges [1899-1986] , in "History of Eternity" [1936]
"American democracy is stone cold dead."
~~ Adrian Ward, on Facebook
"One martini is all right, two are too many, and three are not enough."
~~
James Thurber [1894-1961]
“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.”
~~ Hans Christian Andersen [1805-75]
"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
~~
Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
"All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat."
~~
Jean-Luc Godard
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
~~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer [1940-2015]
“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
~~
British author Virginia Woolf [1882-1941] from her 1928 novel, Orlando: A Biography
"Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there, it's about thinking how that world might be – a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world [that] we live in, they – and all of us – have to be able to think about a world that works differently."
~~ Samuel R. 'Chip' Delany
"When my wife’s Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: ‘Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen’. I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word."
~~
author E.B. White [1899-1985]
"When confronted by small men doing big and stupid things, we need to resist with all the creativity and wit [that] we can muster, and if we can do so without losing the civility that makes life enjoyable, then so much the better."
~~ Bill McKibben, epilogue to new "Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance"
"Anybody who’s denying climate change is really in the dark."
~~
Debra Haaland, 2018 candidate for Congress in New Mexico
"What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?"
~~ novelist Mikhail Bulgakhov [1891-1940]
"Wonderment is the first passion of all. Those without any natural inclination to this passion are ordinarily very ignorant."
~~ French philosopher René Descartes [1596-1650]
"If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If neither are on your side, pound on the table."
~~ poet Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]
"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
~~ Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa [1888-1935]
"My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time [that] they stole from me."
~~
Richard Brautigan [1935-84]
"If you give money, spend yourself with it."
~~
Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
"Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward."
~~ Tina Fey
"After I drink coffee I like to show my empty mug to the I.T. guy to tell him that I have successfully installed Java. He hates me."
~~ Mike Anderson
“If I was walking down the highway with a quarter in my pocket and a briefcase full of truth, I’d be so happy.”
~~
boxing great Muhammad Ali [1942-2016], Sports Illustrated, Feb. 19, 1968
“The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.”
~~ Kenneth Patchen [1911-72]
"The Sweet Baby Jesus gave his life on the Cross so that Retailers Worldwide could end the fiscal year with strong 4th quarter earnings and consumers could start the New Year in Debt up to their eyeballs, thus guaranteeing perpetual Slavery for all of us and Prosperity for the top 1%."
~~ Ernesto Martinez, on Facebook
"The road to success is always under construction.”
~~ Lily Tomlin
“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
~~ Florida billionaire Wayne Huizenga
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
~~ Florence Nightingale [1820-1910]
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”
~~ tennis pro Arthur Ashe [1943-93]
“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”
~~ Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller [1945-2010]
“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”
~~ Michael Dell
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
~~
Sir Walter Scott [1771-1832]
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthwile dream or goal"
~~ Earl Nightingale [1921-89]
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
~~ cosmetics tycoon Estée Lauder [1908-2004]
"There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs"
~~ salesman & speaker Zig Ziglar [1926-2012]
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world [that] they’ve been given than to explore the power [that] they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~~
boxing great Muhammad Ali [1942-2016]
"The best we can do in our life is to employ it in something more lasting than life itself."
~~ William James [1842-1910]
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
~~ Albert Schweitzer [1875-1965]
"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it."
~~ Eckhart Tolle
"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat."
~~ Richard 'Dick' Marcinko
"Everything [that] you own, you rent until you die."
~~ Tasso Lakas
"My own definition of success is when it's standing room only at your funeral."
~~ Richard Hayter
"I never fail. I either win or learn."
~~ Nelson Mandela [1918-2013]
“Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”
~~
William Shakespeare [1564-1616]
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
~~ Joshua J. Marine
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing."
~~
George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
"The responsibility of a creative life is both a curse and a blessing. It's the thing that gives you life and is killing you at the same time."
~~ actor Daniel Day-Lewis
"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."
~~ actress & author Carrie Fisher [1956-2016]
"We have many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
~~ Gen. Omar Bradley [1893-1981]
"Some will not look on suffering because [to do so] creates responsibility."
~~ Bishop Fulton J. Sheen [1895-1979]
"Language is not just a creation of humanity. It
is humanity."
~~ biologist E. (Edward) O. Wilson
"We construct borders, literally and figuratively, to fortify our sense of who we are."
~~ British historian Frances Stonor Saunders
"There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press."
~~ Samuel Adams [1722-1803]
"You think [that] your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, and then you read."
~~ James Baldwin [1924-87]
"There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when 'our side' commits it."
~~
George Orwell [1903-50]
"The happy ending still beckons, and it is in great hope of grasping it that we go on."
~~ Annie Proulx
"A society is moving toward dangerous ground when loyalty to the truth is seen as disloyalty to some supposedly higher interest."
~~ novelist Marilynne Robinson
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
