#raves

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#disease #given #gland #graves #i

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition! ↗

— William James

#call #craves #every #fact #generally

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#benjamin franklin #country #doing #fathers #founding

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#day #every #every day #fact #game

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#little #man #more #poor #too

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#against #bravest #great #great man #man

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#graves #his #life #liking #man

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. ↗