Batons For Self Quotes

#1. I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Aeschylus

#3. You got a better word for a guy who's swept my chimney five times in one night?
-Dr. Jack Francisco

Jane Seville

#4. March out of the common line; make bold steps ahead and dance to the tune of a sweeter, better and nicer tone of your own music. March out of the tiny box!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6. The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out.

Stephen Richards

#7. The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Hilary Mantel

#8. Believing that the soldiers of the apartheid government really did use rubber bullets and carried batons only for decoration is seriously misguided, though understandable considering that newspapers were strictly censored, while history books abounded with Blatant Boer Bias.

Sumayya Lee

#9. Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.

Michael Scott

#10. Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.

Jeanine Basinger

#11. Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't sure what that was about, but he and Annabeth decided to keep walking. Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.

Rick Riordan

#12. I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

Ira Glass

#13. It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

Lord Dunsany

#14. Every company knows what they do
Some know how they do it
Very few know why

Simon Sinek

#15. That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Alexander Calder

#16. Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.

Bryan R. Dennis

#17. At least one thing is certain: Chris and I are inextricably connected. Do I have factual reasons to know this? Proof? Assurances? No None.
Some people believe in God; I believe in Chris.

Jessica Park

#18. Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

David Mitchell

#19. People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

Andrew Williams