I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.
~ Joe Louis ~
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
~ Karl Barth ~
My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.
~ Sandra Cisneros ~
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
~ Winston Churchill ~
That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.
~ Mary Parker Follett ~
Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
~ Morgan Freeman ~
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
~ William Lloyd Garrison ~
Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn ~
If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.
~ Rosa Parks ~
I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
~ Maxine Waters ~
