2 Maccabees Quotes

#1. The idea that an expanding economy implies that all industries must be simultaneously expanding is a profound error.

Henry Hazlitt

#2. Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

Charley Reese

#3. Wishes don't bring riches; work make things work.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#4. When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

Antonio Porchia

#5. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.

Tupac Shakur

#6. Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving.
Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself.
But most of all, remember to be happy.

Melody Beattie

#7. When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

Livy

#8. We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

Loren Cunningham

#9. Pressure makes diamonds - or not.

Stefan Emunds

#10. ...god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material world below.

Ramsay MacMullen

#11. But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Lafcadio Hearn

#12. I've matured as a person and so has the music ... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

G-Eazy

#13. I love you, Lyrik West. And when I walk out that door, I promise you, it's going to hurt."
"But you are worth all the pain.

A.L. Jackson

#14. The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

Charles Reznikoff