"I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Country Quotes #Fall Quotes #Heart Quotes

“For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.”

Source : Martin Niemöller (1937). “Here stand I!”
“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
“Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.”
“The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.”
“I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.”
“A little drama wins more friends than boring.”
“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.”
“No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.”

You may also like: