emo quotes about giving up

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~William H. Walton



Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. ~Charles de Lint



Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~Adlai Stevenson



Waiting is one of life's hardships. ~Lemony Snicket



Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ~Hippocrates, Aphorisms



The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson



The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954



Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimmer



Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. ~Gioacchino Rossini



Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ~Bernard Baruch



Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. ~Bill Dodds



Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988



One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. ~Glenn T. Seaborg, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, speech, Argonne National Laboratory, 1969



Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed



Peace be to you, fear not. ~Genesis 43:23



In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. ~Author Unknown