Fight 4 Freedom

  “Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books” ―  Stephen Fry,  The Fry Chronicles

  “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.” ―  Lord Byron

  “High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” ―  Mark Twain

  “I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.” ―  Pablo Neruda

  “Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.” ―  William Butler Yeats

  “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.” ―  Louis Pasteur

  “Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.” ―  Francis Bacon

  “Beer is made by men, wine by God.” ―  Martin Luther

  “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” ―  Oliver Goldsmith,  The Vicar of Wakefield

  “his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine” ―  E.E. Cummings

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.” ―  William Shakespeare,  As You Like It  

  “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” ―  Kenny Chesney

  “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” ―  Rumi

  “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” ―  W.C. Fields

  “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ―  John Keats

  “Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.” ―  Paulo Coelho,  Brida

  “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” ―  Charles Baudelaire ,  Paris Spleen

  “Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.” ―  Françoise Sagan

  “Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.” ―  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 

  “While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” ―   Groucho Marx

  “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” ―  Virginia Woolf,  A Room of One's Own

  “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” ―  Tony DeLiso,  Legacy: The Power Within

  “Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” ―   Oprah Winfrey

  “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” ―  Dorothy Parker

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”  ― Oscar Wilde

   "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."  —   Lillian Dickson

 "Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."  —  Confucius

 “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” –   Soren Kierkegaard

 "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking."  –   Steve Jobs

   "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." –   Albert Einstein

   "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."  —   Mae West

   "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."  —   John Lennon

   "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."  -- Albert Einstein

   "You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible."   -- Anton Chekhov

  "People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance."   --Jesse Lyn Stoner, author of  Full Steam Ahead

   "Trust, but verify."  -- Ronald Reagan

 "If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers."  -- Roger Staubach

 "Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of."  -- Bob Vanourek, author of  Triple Crown Leadership

   "Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 "We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."  -- Thomas Moore

  The perfect guy is not the one who has the most money or the most handsome one you'll meet. He is the one who knows how to make you smile and will take care of you each and everyday until the end of time. Unknown

  I'm a handsome man with a charming personality. Gabe Newell

  I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me. Wesley Snipes

  “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”  – Oprah Winfrey

  “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”  –Garrison Keillor

  “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in this living room on Christmas Day.”  –Unknown

  “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”  –Dr. Seuss

  “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”  –Freya Stark

  “Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!”  –T.A. Barron

  “Love the giver more than the gift.”  –Brigham Young

  “May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”  –Mary Anne Radmacher

  “The Joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing each other’s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”  –W. C. Jones

  3.  “If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”  —  Winnie the Pooh  ( Winnie the Pooh Quotes )

    “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”  —  Oprah Winfrey

  We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut

  Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. Seth Godin

  Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. Margaret Thatcher

  To add value to others, one must first value others. John Maxwell

  Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. James Humes

  “A bad peace is worse than war.” ― Tacitus

  “You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.” ― Helen Thomas

  “The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.” ― William C. Westmoreland

  “No soldier ever really survives a war.” ― Audie Murphy

  “One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once ‘The Unnecessary War’.” ― Winston S. Churchill

“Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.” ― Alice Walker

  “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton

  Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.  Cameron Russell

  You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.  Victoria Justice

  I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online .  Mads Mikkelsen

  Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.  Ha-Joon Chang

  Fake news and rumors thrive online because few verify what's real and always bias towards content that reinforces their own biases.   Ryan Higa

  Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they have the heart. Elizabeth Andrew

  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands — one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn

  There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. Bernard Meltzer

  Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. Natalie Portman

  If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.   Kofi Annan

  Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring,   patience , and just plain loving one another.   Erma Bombeck

  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

  Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud. Helen Dyer

  We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

  Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.  Bill Clinton

  Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann

  What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. Aristotle

  Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.   Steve Jobs

  Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller

  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.   George S. Patton

  Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.                                                                                   Sun Tzu

         We must never forget that art is not a from of propaganda; it is a from of truth.  _ John F.y Kenned

        If art is to nourish roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.  ­ _John F, Kennedy

       The object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity.  _ Alberto Giacometti

         I found I could things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way things I had no words for.   _ Georgia O’Keeffe

          Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy­_the joy of being Salvador dail_ and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador dail going to accomplish today?  _ Salvador Dali

     Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing whict ones to keep . _Scott Adams  

          The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. __ Neil Gaiman

         Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same tim e.    ­_ Thomas Merton

       A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden

        “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold on fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” _ Emily Dickinson

      “You can fine poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, inj the news, or just what’s in your heart.” _ Carol Ann Duffy

       “To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that feed the soul.  _ Susan Vreeland

       “Poetry  is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”  _ Rita Dove

  . “True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.” - Monica Crowley.

  .  “Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation.” - Kofi Annan.

  “...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.” - Riane Eisler.

  .  “A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.” - Gloria Steinem.

  “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin.

  “Men of quality  respect women ’s equality.” - Jeremiah Say.

  “Gender equality is the goal that will help abolish poverty that will create more equal economies, fairer societies, and happier men, women, and children.” - Graça Machel.

  .“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” - Maya Angelou.

  .“Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.” - Ban Ki-Moon.

  “An undying spirit is the primary source of help because it is within you.” - Fridah Githuku.

  “If you believe in your idea of change and are willing to work hard, sooner or later that dream will be a reality.” - Naomi Tulay Solanke.

  “Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ‘We Should All Be Feminists.’

       “Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.”  – John Rawls

     “Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it.”  – Alexis de Tocqueville

  1     “Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.”  – Abraham Lincoln

     “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”  – Abraham Lincoln

  1      “Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy.”  – Kofi Annan

      “A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”  – John Dewey

       “Democracy is not the law of the majority but protection of the minority.”  – Albert Camus

    “Democracy is not a static thing. It does not stand still.”  – Vincent Harding

         Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm. —  Toussaint Louverture

        We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. —  Paul Kagame

      Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. —  Thomas Jefferson

        Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. —   G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg \

        When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! —   Dieter F. Uchtdorf

        The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way. —   Samuel Hahnemann