1880s Slang Quotes

#1. We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Patrick Dixon

#3. Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.

Paul Tudor Jones

#4. I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.

Robert H. Schuller

#5. Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

Pete Hamill

#6. Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

Charles Dickens

#7. We all were. We wanted to learn the warrior code." "Only because you wanted to be like ThunderClan," Needlepaw scoffed.

Erin Hunter

#8. Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

Jessica Pare

#9. I will always hold on to my heart.
Hold on to that feeling...
Of happiness, peace and freedom.
LOVE.

Bram Joosten

#10. The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places
to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

Olympia Brown

#11. Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

#12. It's like I've landed in the most perfect place in the universe. And then it blows up.

David Levithan

#13. There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

Janine Di Giovanni

#14. Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Agnes Repplier

#15. Allow yourself to fall. I'll catch you.

J.A. Saare