achievement quotes inspirational

Red ice sells hockey tickets. ~Bob Stewart



Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, misfortune - all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical. What do you do with the criminal? You send him to the penitentiary. Is he made better? Worse. The first thing you do is to try to trample out his manhood, by putting an indignity upon him. You mark him. You put him in stripes. At night you put him in darkness. His feeling for revenge grows. You make a wild beast of him, and he comes out of that place branded in body and soul, and then you won't let him reform if he wants to. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben



Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb



The true Indian sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, because to him all days are God's days. The first American mingled with his pride a singular humility. Spiritual arrogance was foreign to his nature and teaching. ~Ohiyesa of the Santee Sioux (Charles Alexander Eastman)



Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. ~John Dewey, Characters and Events



The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~Henri Cartier Bresson



As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977



Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ~Spike Milligan, The Last Goon Show of All



Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. ~Lemony Snicket



Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk



All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ~Federico Fellini



If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~Idries Shah



Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly. ~Astrid Alauda



I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. ~Lillian Smith



To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare



One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ~George MacDonald



There is no god higher than truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Observations always involve theory. ~Edwin Hubble



"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? ~Douglas Jerrold