"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Strength Quotes #Crush Quotes #Peace Quotes

“I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'”
“Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?”
“You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.”
“It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.”
“If you don't respect nothin' else, you will respect this hustle.”
“What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they load it down with debt. They make their money by lending to the bottom 95%, or the bottom 99%. When you give them more after-tax income, it enables them to buy even more control of government, even more control of election campaigns. They're not going to spend this money back into the goods-and-services economy.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I focus best and am most productive when Iâ€™m working in a friendâ€™s empty apartment. Itâ€™s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.”

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