#gains

If you live for fame, men may turn against you. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#fame #live #may #men #turn

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#america #barrier #elevation #every #exists

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children. ↗

— John Spratt

#am #attention #calling #children #defense

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me. ↗

— Peter Steele

#been #cry #i #know #me

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#agency #am #baseball #dead #free

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#itself #lean #learns #mind #solitude

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#anything #could #demonstrations #early #getting

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#forget #i #me #people #today