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“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”
Virginia Woolf
“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”
Virginia Woolf
“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
Virginia Woolf
“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
Virginia Woolf
“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
Virginia Woolf
“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
Virginia Woolf
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
Walt Whitman
“The real war will never get in the books.”
Walt Whitman
“Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.”
Alan Watts
“It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.”
Adele
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
John Adams
“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”
John Adams
“As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.”
John Adams
“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.”
Ansel Adams
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
Edmund Burke
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
Edmund Burke
“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
Edmund Burke
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
Richard Bach
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.”
Robert Browning
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
William Seward Burroughs
“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.”
Ambrose Bierce
“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”
Ambrose Bierce
