"The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Thinking Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“I never questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.”
“Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.”
“The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.
“Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.”
“We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.”
“Right now, your destiny is to shut up!”
“Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.”
“In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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