For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Lets reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence. – John Garamendi
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. – Andrew Greeley
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. – Thomas J. Watson
The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt