#eve

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#job #longest #never #started #takes

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#appears #believed #black #born #declaration

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#dreams #go #goals #hard #really

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#different #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#additional #avoid #effort #every #fighting

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#agree #civilization #justice #moral #must

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#even #good #good book #life #life story

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. ↗

— Sue Townsend

#every time #i #long #new #piece

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#body #bone #certainly #every #felt

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#alive #aright #better #creature #dead