"Youâ€™re walking down lifeâ€™s road, societyâ€™s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you canâ€™t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life."

-- Odetta

#Lying Quotes #Feet Quotes #Down And Quotes

“I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.”
“The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.”
“Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.”
“A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...”
“The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.”
“It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.”
“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”
“It is one of the worse things you can say about somebody, they are racist.”

Source : "'Hannity': Michele Bachmann Defends Tea Party Against Racism Charges". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 19, 2010.

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