The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis
WorkYourselfThinkDoingYouBack
The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.
Amy J. Berg
CommunityBeginningPeopleLegacy
As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.
Rodney Crowell
ChildhoodSoulManMy SoulTrying
I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.
Juicy J
MeWriteGotFilmSongsSome
For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.
Julia Holter
MeFreeDecisionsInspiredPoetic
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
Joseph Brodsky
LifeDeathMoreConcreteReasonOdd
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Deepak Chopra
BlameFeelGuiltOthersOutOur
I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.
Claire Messud
LoveWishSometimesIrreplaceable
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Alice Paul
EqualityMeProblemsDirectionNever
I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'
Woody Norris
TogetherColorsWavesThoughtYou
The last thing I wanted to do was act, because it was the path of least resistance.
Wyatt Russell
PathResistanceActBecauseLast
My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.
William H. McRaven
MorningTodayWifeTrainingQueen
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