Ap lang quotes Flashcards
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Ghandi, 20th century nonviolent leader of Indian independence movement
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein, 20th century Germany physicist
The two most important days of your life are the day you were born, and the day you found out why
Mark Twain, 19th century American Author
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr, 20th century civil rights activist
The truth is rarely pure and never simple
Oscar Wilde; 19th century Irish satirist, Victorian playwright and poet
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
Benjamin Franklin, 18th century founding father, inventor
History is written by the victors
Winston Churchill, 20th century British Prime Minister, WWII
In a time of universal deceit-telling the truth is a revolutionary act
George Orwell, 20th century British dystopian author, Animal Farm
That which does not kill us makes us stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th century German Philosopher
I am not concerned with your liking or disliking of me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being
Jackie Robinson, First black major league baseball player, number 42 is retired across all MLB
True knowledge exists in knowing you know nothing
Socrates, classical Greek philosopher
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it
Hellen Keller, 20th century humanitarian, advocate for blind an deaf.
Think Different
Steve Jobs, 20/21st century inventor, founder of Apple
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
Ralph Waldo Emmerson. 19th century, leader of Transcendental movement
All things truly wicked start from innocence
Ernest Hemingway, 20th century American novelist
Let us remember, one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world
Malala Yousufzai, youngest winner of NPP, Pakistani feminist
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls
Pablo Picasso, 20th century Spanish artist, Cubist movement
It always seems impossible until it is done
Nelson Mandela, First south African president
The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray
Robert Burns, 18th century romantic poet
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou, 20th century African American Poet & civil rights movement leader
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman
Virginia Woolf, 20th century author, feminist and modernist
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
Eleonor Roosevelt, longest serving first lady of the United States
I do not agree with what you have to say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it
Voltaire, 18th century French enlightenment author
Things do not change, we change
Henry David Thoreau, 19th century transcendentalist, Civil Disobedience
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally everybody’s face but their own
Johnathan Swift, 18th century irish satirical essayist
