#Two Quotes #Dancer Quotes #Originality Quotes
“Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.”
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
Source : "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.
“It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.”
“A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.”
“I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.”
“Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.”
“This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness”
“But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society. Nothing could have been further from the minds of most of them than the final brutish and obscene result. The gangster comes upon the stage only when the scene has been made ready for him by his blundering precursors.”
Source : "As We Go Marching".
