"I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery."

-- Patrick Henry

#Believe Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Evil Quotes

“People don't smile because they're happy. They're happy because they smile.”
“Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.”
“I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.”
“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press
“I do not sleep to dream but dream to change the world”
“Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.”
“Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.”
“The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.”

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