Choices

"Censuring Joseph Stalin at a public meeting, Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was interrupted by a voice from the audience. “You were one of Stalin’s colleagues,” shouted the heckler. “Why didn’t you stop him?” “Who said that?” roared Khrushchev. There ...

"I will not carry a gun. . . . I'll caryy your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to old Virginia, I'll ...

"Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly activities.... They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future." - Desmond Tutu ...

"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown ...

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult." - Warren Buffett ...

"I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does." - Virgilia Peterson ...

"I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don’t want to buy things they don’t need to impress people they dislike." - Emile Henry Gauvreau ...

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking. . . . The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." - Albert ...

"The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet." - Julia Butterfly Hill ...

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done ...