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Jean-Paul Sartre Quote: “I am no longer sure of…”

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

October 30, 2021 1905, French, Jean-Paul Sartre, June 21, Quotes by Philosophers

Dolores Huerta Quote: “My mother never made me do…”

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

October 28, 2021 1930, American, April 10, Dolores Huerta, Quotes by Activists

Sheena Iyengar Quote: “Too many choices can overwhelm us…”

Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.

October 26, 2021 1969, American, November 29, Quotes by Educators, Sheena Iyengar

Lucy Larcom Quote: “I remember how beautiful the Merrimac…”

I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

October 23, 2021 1824, American, Lucy Larcom, March 5, Quotes by Poets

Brigham Young Quote: “We should never permit ourselves to…”

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

October 22, 2021 1801, American, Brigham Young, June 1, Quotes by Leaders

Malcolm X Quote: “A man who stands for nothing…”

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

October 22, 2021 1925, American, Malcolm X, May 19, Quotes by Activists

Blaise Pascal Quote: “Can anything be stupider than that…”

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

October 19, 2021 1623, Blaise Pascal, French, June 19, Quotes by Philosophers

I. King Jordan Quote: “After becoming deaf, I realized that…”

After becoming deaf, I realized that I’d better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

October 14, 2021 1943, American, I. King Jordan, June 16, Quotes by Educators

Allen Tate Quote: “According to its doctors, my one…”

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

October 7, 2021 1899, Allen Tate, American, November 19, Quotes by Poets

Frank O’Hara Quote: “I don’t think I want to…”

I don’t think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

October 3, 2021 1926, American, Frank O'Hara, June 27, Quotes by Poets

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