Carl Sandburg Quotes
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.Carl Sandburg
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
Dan Hill -
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Sam Harris -
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch -
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
W. H. Davies -
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx -
I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer -
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco -
Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
Harold Pinter -
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill -
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
Rachel Cusk -
'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
Imelda May -
While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton -
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
Katha Pollitt
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Form displays the relation to beings itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.
Martin Heidegger -
[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."
Queen Latifah -
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Maajid Nawaz -
I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
Pramila Jayapal -
First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression.
Barack Obama -
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg