"Westward the star of empire takes its way."

-- John Quincy Adams

#Stars Quotes #Progress Quotes #Empires Quotes

“What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.”
“I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.”
“We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...”

Source : Richard Wilbur, “A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the VILLa Sciarra”
“Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.”

Source : Dick Francis (2006). “Straight”, p.15, Penguin
“He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.”
“There's round-winners, and there's fighters.”

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