Lysander Spooner Quotes

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

Lysander Spooner

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HonestyMenPoliticsManReligion

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

Jennifer Nettles

LifeLiveSonBraveParentMy Life

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

Jeffrey Zeldman

PastMeThinkDesignWallNever

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Jean Ingelow

NatureFlowersMoonNightLooksSee

I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to be a traffic controller - you want a guy that's really worried about every plane in the sky!

Mia Goth

BestQualitySkyOptimismThinkYou

David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.

Michael McKean

MoneyStudentsSeptemberTechKnown

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

Lois Lowry

MyselfMindDestinationStartStory

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Josh Billings

CommitCommittedEasierThanMuch

I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

LifeFatherSonGodFaithPower

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

WisdomCourageCompassionMenMoral

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.

Bob Seger

SportsTogetherFunTeamCoolHard

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

Brownie McGhee

FuturePastMeCareEnoughDream

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

Willie Nelson

TimeChurchFirst TimeOldFirst

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