"Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else."

-- Myrtle Reed

#Doe Quotes #Harm Quotes #Wrongdoing Quotes

“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”

Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
“There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.”
“My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.”
“The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God , not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth , however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I ... what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue ; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.”
“Have patience. Stocks don't go up immediately.”
“I played with the best conductors of the world.”

Source : "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.

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