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Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. – Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
I've resolved that I'll hang out with them as long as they make me smile... & then, I'll move on to the next when they stop... if one of them ends up lasting forever, then awesome... if not, just like goldfish, you can always get another one when they start to get ichy. – Ingrid Weir
Neo I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. – Matrix, The
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. – Archimedes
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. – Zig Ziglar
We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Thomas Jefferson
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. – Steven Patrick Callahan
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. – Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. – Henry Ward Beecher
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. – Dr. A. B. Meldrum
Evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. – Glen Cook, The Black Company
Frank I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument or be able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact I bought her a harp for christmas. She asked me what it was. – Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. – C. G. Jung
I've resolved that I'll hang out with them as long as they make me smile... & then, I'll move on to the next when they stop... if one of them ends up lasting forever, then awesome... if not, just like goldfish, you can always get another one when they start to get ichy. – Ingrid Weir
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary. – Ayn Rand
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. – Ruth Gordon
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell
In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country. – Hendrik W. Van Loon
It's cabin fever season people, that time of year when four walls feel like they're going to come in here and choke the spirit right out of you. Time to lock away those firearms and hang tough. No way through it except to do it. – Jeff Melvoin
Jive Lady Just hang loose blood. She gonna handa your rebound on the med side. – Airplane
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mind is the great lever of all things. – Daniel Webster

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