Civic Courage Quotes

#1. I don't value prizes of any sort.

David Hockney

#2. There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

Francis Chan

#3. And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

#4. I felt that first awareness that there's a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you've never heard - the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.

Carrie Brownstein

#5. Positive thoughts help us construct a positive life, one thought at a time.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#6. The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

Rush Limbaugh

#7. Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

Dahlia Lithwick

#8. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. My landlord Gary Hales was standing in his living room, watching out the window as I brought the man with the shoulder holstered gun and the black briefcase onto his property. Gary loves it when I do stuff like that.

Rick Riordan

#10. We are all ONE, no matter in what form, space or time. As ONE we can change the world if we start changing ourselves.

Akiane Kramarik

#11. I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

Ted Nugent

#12. For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.

John Chrysostom

#13. Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

Georgette Mosbacher

#14. As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Tom Colicchio

#15. Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

George Will

#16. If there is progress then there is a novel.

William Carlos Williams

#17. People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.

John Spence