"Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions."

-- Bob Ehrlich

#Leader Quotes #Action Quotes #Polls Quotes

“Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.”
“Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.”
“Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.”
“We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.”

Source : Edgar Fawcett (1891). “Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)”
“The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.”
“The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?”
“I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.”
“True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire”

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