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“Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.”
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“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
Source : Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press
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“If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.”
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“Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.”
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“I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.”
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“Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.”
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“We've got to find another way of producing energy.”
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“I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.”
Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.
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“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
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“The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.”
Source : William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”