jay z quotes

The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968



No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ~H.L. Mencken



Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on. ~Ed Howe



Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. ~Paul Harvey



Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. ~Dave Beard



When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959



You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown



Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound



Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell



Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren



In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence. ~Rosanne Amberson



When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela



It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~Robert Southey



There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965



Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week! ~Lee Fox Williams



We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown



Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer