"I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people."

-- John Shelby Spong

#People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.”
“When you tell the truth, people listen.”

Source : Jose Raul Bernardo (1999). “Silent Wing”
“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.”
“I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.”
“Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.”
“All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.”

Source : "The Moore legacy" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2008.
“I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell (1995). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.203, CUP Archive
“No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

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