"There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Civilization Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn in the film is that there were major consequences for even trying to vote. You could be killed for trying to vote. You could definitely be fired from your job and many were, which is why so few black Mississippians even attempted to register early on. They put your name in the newspaper if you tried to register to vote.”
“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”
“Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.”
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.”
“The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.”
“Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.”
“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.”
“I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.”

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