"They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'"

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Fall Quotes #Archer Quotes #Arrows Quotes

“It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.”
“Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.”
“Deal with just the basic fact: we will never have enough money for lawyers for poor people. So one of our major initiatives has been to develop new technologies that can help people without a lawyer navigate the legal system, and help sort the cases that really need to have a lawyer from those where an individual with some help online, may be able to manage by him or herself.”
“What do you think it is?" "It could be anything from a lawn trimmer to a bomb, for all I know." "I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?”
“We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!”
“The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement”
“The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.”

Source : "Political Junkie: Sen. Larry Craig's Guilty Plea". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 29, 2007.
“When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.”

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