"Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come."

-- Lucretia Mott

#Wise Quotes #Law Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.”
“Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs.Â These financial problems are not market failures but government failure.Â ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.”
“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”

Source : Joan D. Vinge (2007). “Psion”, p.302, Macmillan
“Everybody loves things that sparkle.”
“I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.”
“We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.”
“I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. Â But bear in the forest.”

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