#ron

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#attempts #butchers #crime #innocence #might

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. ↗

— Howard Cosell

#burning #gentleman #ladies

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#iron #make #only #strike #striking

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. ↗

— Damon Runyon

#battle #bet #nor #race #strong

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#cruel #expected #gentleness #i #learned

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#because #bronx #brooklyn #day #different

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#bring #enough #goals #other #people

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#because #fragile #inside #men #most

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#contrast #dark #dark shadows #earth #lights