Quotes 18441 till 18460 of 25274.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
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The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
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The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) -
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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