June Collins > June's Quotes

“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston Churchill

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Thr truth is inconvertible.
Malice may attack it
and ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is.....”
― Winston Churchill

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”
― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes