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“it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.”
Source : Harriet Martineau (1849). “Life in the sick-room. Essays. By an invalid [i.e. H. Martineau] ... Third edition”, p.138
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“I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.”
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“I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.”
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“We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.”
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“I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.”
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“I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.”
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“My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.”
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Source : "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
