#nothing

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#carried #extreme #great #great minds #idol

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#considering #exchange #expect #favorable #get

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. ↗

— Robert Frost

#just #make #mercy #nothing

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#active #any #back #became #because

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#morally wrong #nothing #politically #right #wrong

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ↗

— Edward Young

#birth #death #fire #moment #nothing

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#actually #because #bitter #come #controversy

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with. ↗

— Roger Stone

#get #i #nothing #things

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#burnt #could #else #every #feeling