Mashes Hams Quotes

#1. Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

Bill Crawford

#3. Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Dennis Prager

#4. Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.

Edmund Morgan

#5. Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to.

John Steinbeck

#6. We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely escaped us.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#7. Our challenges don't define us, our actions do,

Michael J. Fox

#8. War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Kate Adie

#9. However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Samuel R. Delany

#10. I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. ... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. It's because of people like you that people like me need therapy.

Morton Hurley

#12. It lets us hear the clanging air of history and slips the links of our own epoch onto that long concatenation.

Alena Graedon