“You can't just sit around waiting for hope to come, you're acting like spoiled irresponsible children. You don't seem to understand that hope is something you have to earn. And if you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time then let me remind you that our political leaders have wasted dec…”— Greta Thunberg, eesc.europa.eu
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Everybody wants to talk. No one wants to do anything.”— Nic Sheff, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com
“The idea of the banality of heroism debunks the myth of the ‘heroic elect,’ a myth that reinforces two basic human tendencies. The first is to ascribe very rare personal characteristics to people who do something special — to see them as superhuman, practically beyond comparison to the rest of us. T…”— Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“God loves man, we are told, but love must be proved by facts, not reasons. If you were in a boat and did not save a drowning man, you would burn in Hell for certain; yet God, in His wisdom, feels no need to use His power to save anyone from a single moment of suffering, and in spite of his inaction…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com