Thayers Marine Quotes

#1. Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Marxism and are comparatively firm in their proletarian stand have to go on studying, have to absorb what is new and study new problems.

Mao Zedong

#2. If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

Wen Jiabao

#3. Good's a pretty funny word. Never seems to have the same meaning to any two people" -T. Walker

Holly Schindler

#4. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Horace Greeley

#5. Don't be afraid ... " We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

Terry Pratchett

#8. One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

Josh Billings

#10. He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless.

Nalini Singh

#11. To Jesus, the Christian life wasn't about being perfect but about being perfected.

Ricky Maye

#12. We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it.

Hal Elrod

#14. You came into my life when I was alone, with not another person to call my own. You mended the broken shreds of my heart.

Lynette Ferreira

#15. When you're a little kid. Everything is a sparkling wonder.

Tim Tharp