Quotes of Stephen Decatur

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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

- Stephen Decatur

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“ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:12 NIV) ”

- Anonymous

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Sometimes we may feel disheartened and demoralized but we must keep faith in ourselves. We may be going through a lot of ups and downs in our life. But we must realise that growth begins from chaos! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily. ever. after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, “I’m not afraid to believe in you.” ”

- Cara Lockwood

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Friendship not defined by words Friendship only defined by action ”

- Arshdeep Singh Samrala

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life