Favorite quotes

"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them." -Bill Cosby

 

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
-- Babe Ruth

 

"As soon as you try to define beauty you'd be thwarted by finding something that one would think is ugly presented in a beautiful way and you'd be puzzled by it. You know you've got it when you've got it. But it's these unexpected things that come about, like walking through an industrial district and seeing the profile of industrial buildings against the sky. Industrial buildings taken individually are horrible, but all of a sudden it's a beautiful scene to behold. Beauty is very elusive and difficult. And you should probably never try to define it." —Architect Frank Gehry

 

"Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole." -Ethiopian proverb

 

"If you're going to dig a hole and use that pile of dirt for something over here, you've got to fill that hole up with something else. There are people digging holes everywhere and ignoring it and they're wondering why they're getting bad luck; they're not paying respect to Mother Nature and Father Time. It's not about covering your tracks but saying, 'Thank you'." —Jimmy Little

 

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Gandhi

 

"You haven't got a revolution with bloodshed. There is no such thing as a non-violent revolution." - Malcom X

 

"I would risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race."

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"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."

Mahatma Gandhi

 

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." William Blake

 

"Chi trova un amico, trova un tesoro"

One who finds a friend, finds a treasure.

 

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! : The Untouchables

 

Sean Connery was a beast in that role.:smt045

 

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative."- John Stuart Mill

 

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"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish." —European Proverb

 

"I'm unable to kill because I'm bounded by personal and governmental restrictions. Once I break free from these chains, may my true chaotic nature be unleashed." ~Anonymous~

"Faith? Only a child cling onto sweet nothings." ~Anonymous~

 

"He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front." -Benjamin E. Mays

 

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." -Frederick Douglass

 

"Hip hip is entertainment but Entertainment is also Education - Prince Ea

 

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men" Martin Luther King Jr.