Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 77
Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
Herbert Marcuse
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
Larry Ellison
Your genuine action will explain itself, and
will explain your other genuine actions.
Your conformity explains nothing.
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Anna Mickelson
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
Bikram Choudhury
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Mario Puzo
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
Ethan Coen
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[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.
Paul Bowles
