Chief Seattle Quotes

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

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• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • Career
  • Thoughts

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Distracted

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • House
  • Man

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Politics
  • Loved
  • Politicians

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

  Tablo
  • Feelings
  • Daughter
  • Price

• My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Father
  • Party

• Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Me

• Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Danger
  • Wealthy
  • Aspiration

• We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

  

  Bashar al-Assad

• A essência do universo é a contradição.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.

  

  Larry Wall

• I have said that, in a sense, the parasites were a 'shadow' of man's cowardice and passivity. Their strength could increase in an atmosphere of defeat and panic, for it fed on human fear. In that case, the best way to combat them was to change the atmosphere to one of strength and purpose.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Fear
  • Purpose
  • Shadow

• Trayvon Martin was 17, Mike Brown was young, Tamir Rice was 12. And so young people are affected by it, possibly the most affected, because they're seeing themselves.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • People

• The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Up

• If there were ever two sentences that you will not respond well to, 'Don't move. There's a snake behind your foot,' is it.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Moving
  • Feet
  • Behinds

• I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Years
  • Europe

• O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • God
  • Hope
  • Fear

• To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

  

  Chief Seattle