Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, c...arry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation bet...ter to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.... Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bless you, of course you're keeping me from work, But the thing of it is, I need to be kept.... There's work enough to do there's always that; But behind's behind. The worst that you can do Is set me back a little more behind. I shan't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you Yankees and your holy principle about savin' the Union. You're plunderin' pirates that's what. Well, you think there's n...o Confederate army where you're goin'. You think our boys are asleep down here. Well, they'll catch up to you and they'll cut you to pieces you, you nameless, fatherless scum. I wish I could be there to see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination... Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success--that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all!--here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There... they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavouring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may be... cooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought for... the morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »