#ted

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fools #fortune #good #good fortune #merit

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion

And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ads #campaign #did #enough #football

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#college #college kids #crazy #dangerous #drove

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#antagonism #being #child #directed #each

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#grass #i #imagination #make #used

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#any #anyone #clothes #come #down

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#anything #because #book #character #english

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#become #colors #day #every #every day

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#appreciated #battle #described #easily #great