"How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home."

-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Home Quotes #Land Quotes #Wife Quotes

“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”
“What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.”
“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.”

Source : William Edgar Borah (1936). “Bedrock: Views on Basic National Problems”
“My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.”
“Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.”
“My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.”
“They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.”
“Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.”

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