"Ideas are, in truth, force."

-- Henry James

#Learning Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Force Quotes

“The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.”

Source : Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.19, Penguin
“No human relation gives one possession in anotherâ€”every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”
“I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.”
“It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.”
“We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!”

Source : Louis Untermeyer (1930). “Blue Rhine, Black Forest: A Hand- & Day-book”
“If in the past, you didnt cry out when thousands of protestors were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terrorist attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you ONLY cry out for Gaza, then you are NOT Pro- Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.”
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”

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