Ed Blackwell Quotes
Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.
A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.
Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.
Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?
It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.
Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.
Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
I work in my pajamas most of the time. No matter what you’re wearing, you can sound businesslike on the phone.
Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.
Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree.
There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.
No punching?" he asked."No.""No kicking?""No.""How about arm wrestling?""No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."Fate Succumbs
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes but above me and within me there was a spirit stronger than them all.
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood the property of all women.