Rose O'neal Greenhow Quotes

#1. If you wait for everyone else to do the right thing before you do the right thing, then you'll never do what's right. You have to do what's right even if other people aren't. Maybe even especially if other people aren't.

Brendan Halpin

#2. You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get.

Ann Romney

#3. I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#4. Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake. My aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die.

Ilona Andrews

#5. I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Albion Fellows Bacon

#7. I don't want them to focus on my outlaw tendencies. If they knew what a long, messy history I have of doing the opposite of what I'm told, things could get ugly.

Ann Aguirre

#8. What trifles colour life and make it dark as night.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#9. Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

Marie Curie

#10. Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#11. I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

Nina Simone

#12. Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Euripides

#13. The romance of religion isn't nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ.

Darlene Zschech

#14. God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#15. If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

Pamela Anderson

#16. To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

Peter L. Berger

#17. Like lightning she snatched her axe, and struck him on the neck - deep - once - twice - his life-blood gushed out, staining her feet.
The stars touched midnight.

Clemence Housman