All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
 ~wise results sayings by Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
 ~saying by Paul Gallico

Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.
 ~inspirational quote on Sex by Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn’t a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
 ~good quotes about Gardens of Eleanor Perényi, Green Thoughts, 1981

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt…
 ~famous sayings on Attitude by Dorothy Day