It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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Quote:- It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling.
Selected Poems
Author:- Stevie Smith
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is the public schools, however, which can be made, outside the homes, the greatest means of training decent self-respecting citizens. We have been so hotly engaged recently in discussing trade-schools and the higher education that the pitiable plight of the public-school system in the South has almost dropped from view. Of every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even then the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform. If this is true of the whites, what of the blacks? I am becoming more and more convinced, as I look upon the system of common-school training in the South, that the national government must soon step in and aid popular education in some way. To-day it has been only by the most strenuous efforts on the part of the thinking men of the South that the Negro’s share of the school fund has not been cut down to a pittance in some half-dozen States; and that movement not only is not dead, but in many communities is gaining strength. What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe economic competition, without political rights, and with ludicrously inadequate common-school facilities? What can it expect but crime and listlessness, offset here and there by the dogged struggles of the fortunate and more determined who are themselves buoyed by the hope that in due time the country will come to its senses?
The Souls of Black Folk
Author:- W.E.B. Du Bois
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
Author:- Myles Munroe
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular but essentially is not at all, inasmuch as he does not mean much by the very odd things he says (alas, and this is a popular art!). Socrates, on the other hand, was the most unpopular in Greece because he said the same thing as the simplest person but meant infinitely much by it. To be able to stick to one thing, to stick to it with ethical passion and undauntedness of spirit, to see the intrinsic duplexity of this one thought with the same impartiality, and at one and the same time to see the most profound earnestness and the greatest jest, the deepest tragedy and highest comedythis is unpopular in any age for anyone who has not realized that immediacy is over. But neither can what is essentially unpopular be learned by rote. More on that later.
Stages on Life's Way
Author:- Søren Kierkegaard
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
The Little Prince
Author:- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Category:- time
Quote:- It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.
Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Author:- Kelly Bryson
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
Being and Nothingness
Author:- Jean-Paul Sartre
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is therefore, our responsibility to enjoy and respect our cultures, including the cultures of others.
Destiny of Liberty
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.
Author:- Albert Einstein
Category:- science
Quote:- It is time for a wealth creation revolution. And it starts with you.
StartUp Saboteurs: How Incompetence, Ego, and Small Thinking Prevent True Wealth Creation
Author:- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Category:- best
Quote:- It is time to end the willful incompetence regarding altitude sickness and shift work disorder in professional astronomy.
Author:- Steven Magee
Category:- time
Quote:- It is time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a sea of unremarkable men and women, anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabetized things, a million forgotten hours.
Picnic, Lightning
Author:- Billy Collins
Category:- poetry
Quote:- It is time to publicly acknowledge the biological toxicity of the Mauna Kea Observatories and to demolish them.
Author:- Steven Magee
Category:- time
Quote:- It is time to set up the two players against each other, the one who controls people and plays with them versus the one who directs emotions and plays with hearts.
Together We Were (W)hole
Author:- Namrata Gupta
Category:- Love
Quote:- It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.
Author:- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre
Category:- science
Quote:- It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Confessions
Author:- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.
The Time Keeper
Author:- Mitch Albom
Category:- time