Parades Quotes - Page 2

• Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Children, Hate

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  Noam Chomsky (1993). “Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture”, p.114, South End Press

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• In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Civil Rights, Revolution, Retreat

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Sunday, Men, Thinking

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• Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

  George W. Crane

  Inspirational, Life, Language

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• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

  Will Rogers

  Nuisance, Prison, Should

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.

  Lance Bass

  Want, Persons

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• Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

  Philip James Bailey

  Memorial Day, Military, Animal

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.213

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• I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

  Georges Simenon

  Men, Saws, Young

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• I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus I've got to get the war going once that's all happened, and all this is stuff I've got to do myself. Here's what it all comes down to: I'm just swamped, Ty.

  William Goldman

  Country, War, Party

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• He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

  Harpo Marx

  Thanksgiving, Macy's, Like Something

  Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.169, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Mind, Dresses

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• The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Power, Broken

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• He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relaxation, Aimless Life, Insult

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• My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, People, Joy

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• Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

  Dean Koontz

  Humanity, Fool, Twirling

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.73, Bantam

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• If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

  Hannah More

  Littles, Modesty, Young

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.344

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• I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

  William Faulkner

  Time, Long, Mind

  William Faulkner (2013). “The Sound And The Fury”, p.63, Random House

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• Always be on time. Never try to make any personal engagements. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Never be disturbed by anything. Always do what you're told to do as quickly as possible. Remember to lean back in a parade, so that people can see your husband. Don't get too fat to ride three on a seat. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Husband, Talking, People

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• When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

  William Westmoreland

  Inspiring, Memories, Military

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• The Republicans could mess up a two car parade

  William J. Clinton

  Two, Car, Republican

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• If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

  Du Mu

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

  Dick Durbin

  Veterans Day, Illinois, Speech

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• Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Talking, Wife, Car

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