A Capsule of Timeless Quotes

I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
Author: Eric Shinseki
An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.
Author: Sri Aurobindo
A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.
Author: Tehyi Hsieh
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.
Author: Eugene V. Debs
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Author: Herman Melville
We would have done what they are doing anyway So this shit about taking in the souls and life's lasting misery We're gonna take them down and do it on the front page Gonna watch those little crooks come crawling back on bended knee
Author: Rachael Yamagata
You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that's the sad truth. Maybe they'll break your heart, maybe you'll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That's the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.
Author: T. J. Thyne
Gerald the Banker I made my millions, stashed the pile in Swiss bank havens, lost the lot when Inland Revenue got wise. So, I did my time, my time for what?
Author: Ian Anderson
But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
Author: Job 24:22
I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.
Author: Carli Lloyd
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
Author: Barbara Kruger
For what I will, I will, and there an end.
Author: William Shakespeare
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
Author: Peter Ustinov
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.
Author: Holly Sklar
Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming
Author: Esther Hicks
Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
Author: John Cheever
Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?
Author: Matei Calinescu