“The worst kind of person is the one who wakes up on 3rd base thinking they hit a triple.”
[Provided by Erin Hohlfelder]
“My generation gets a lot of flak for being lazy and being addicted to our phones. Well, social media is powerful.” – Veronica Carbonell, age 17, is a senior at Cypress Bay High school in Weston, FL, not far from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school.
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts…for support rather than illumination.” – Andrew Lang
“Even paranoids have enemies.”
[First seen on a button without ascription]
“These young people get to be literally warriors of the light…They’re trying to – through their voices, through the March for our lives – say: We will not let this happen again. We are going to do what we can to banish the darkness'”
-Oprah Winfrey (AP)
“I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud. America is the most powerful country in all of human history, everybody knows it, and we don’t need to show it off.” – Senator John Kennedy (R-LA)
“The news gods must be going crazy.”
[MSNBC Morning Joe, 3/1/18]
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” – Amelia Earhart
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.” – Charles Lindbergh
“It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.” – Charles Lindbergh