"Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle."

-- Orlando Aloysius Battista

#Success Quotes #Initiative Quotes #Candle Quotes

“Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.”
“Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.”
“If 3,000 people perished in the World Trade Center attacks and the Jewish population is 10 percent, you show me records of 300 Jewish people dying in the World Trade Centerâ€¦Weâ€™re daring anyone to dispute its truth. They got their people out.”
“Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.”
“It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.88, Vanderbilt University Press
“She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didnâ€™t belong in such a glum and gray place, as if he had no right to look at her expression.”
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
“A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who, upon the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents which they did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not got.”

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