Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in
herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds,
insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability
to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a
form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Dear Abby - See
Pauline Phillips
Are all men in disguise except those crying?
Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station.
Dannie Abse
I know the colour rose, and it is lovely,
But not when it ripens in a tumour;
And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike,
In limbs that fester are not springlike.
Pathology of Colours
Dannie Abse
Piano
At 66 Sandringham Crescent
an upright piano was being eased down
a long flight of stairs by three men
all wearing off-white overalls.
Backward, staccato, two stepped
descending
one
stair
at
a
time
till the taller of the two men
began to collapse in slow
slow slow motion
and the piano
leapt
to the hallway's rising floor
crashing its memories of music:
simple tunes such as 3 Blind Mice,
as well as great meaningful sonatas
of profundity and faraway,
into a scattered anarchic jigsaw
of free-loving volatile
meaningless sounds
fading
till the stricken piano
lost its memory entirely.
After the ambulance arrived (too late)
one removal man lit a cigarette
and sensing the wide-awake stare
of the householder
tapped the grey ash, with great delicacy,
into the cupped hollow of his left hand.
Running Late
Dannie Abse
Praying is another way of singing.
You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.
You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
Song for Dov Shamir
Dannie Abse
So in the simple blessing of a rainbow,
In the bevelled edge of a sunlit mirrow,
I have seen visible, Death's artifact
Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked.
Pathology of Colours
Dannie Abse
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Dannie Abse
You have a beautiful classy mind but I find you physically unattractive.
Welsh Retrospective
Dannie Abse
A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
Bella Abzug
All of the men on my staff can type.
Bella Abzug
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because
the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
Bella Abzug
I am not a centrist.
Bella Abzug
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional
identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
Bella Abzug
I prefer the word
homemaker
because
housewife
always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Bella Abzug
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
Bella Abzug
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of
consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein
get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
Bella Abzug
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't
make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
Bella Abzug
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
Bella Abzug
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug
They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the
Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the
time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.
Bella Abzug
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full
range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
Bella Abzug
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the
institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Bella Abzug
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella Abzug
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a
secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
Bella Abzug
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Bella Abzug
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it
clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
Bella Abzug
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Bella Abzug
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures
what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
Dean Acheson
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Dean Acheson
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson
Great Acquirer - See
Robert Court
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
Douglas Adams
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against
terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Douglas Adams
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of
publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish
online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams
Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were
dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're
still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't
recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
Douglas Adams
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Douglas Adams
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to
see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas Adams
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old
woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a
contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in
Dr. Who
scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise
is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer
complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.
Douglas Adams
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas Adams
I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us.
Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people
over the Internet.
Douglas Adams
I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit
is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.
Douglas Adams
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even
know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
I remember very little about writing the first series of
Hitchhiker's.
It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
Douglas Adams
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent
musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Bob Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
Douglas Adams
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of
thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word
freedom
means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art
but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is
knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas Adams
I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with
anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.
Douglas Adams
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John
Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
Douglas Adams
I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody
assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
Douglas Adams
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas Adams
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to
avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the
possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror
and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
Douglas Adams
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do
it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry
I could have thought of that
is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You
can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
Douglas Adams
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is
just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
Douglas Adams
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that
they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams
Of course you can't
trust
what people tell you on the web anymore than you can
trust
what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who
you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no
them
out there. It's just an awful lot of
us.
Douglas Adams
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of
Hitchhiker's,
and I thought,
No, no.
I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another
thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you
may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of
the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when
a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Douglas Adams
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use
is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
Douglas Adams
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more
accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas Adams
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying,
Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.
Douglas Adams
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
Time is bunk.
Douglas Adams
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do
what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
Douglas Adams
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices
which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.
Douglas Adams
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Douglas Adams
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked
out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often
crash
when we tried to use them.
Douglas Adams
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start
seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Douglas Adams
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile
experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas Adams
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
Years and years ago, I did a game based on
Hitchhiker's Guide
with a company called Infocom,
which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
Douglas Adams
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin P. Adams
Count that day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
Franklin P. Adams
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Franklin P. Adams
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
Franklin P. Adams
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a
conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
Too much truth is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything
to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Franklin P. Adams
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Franklin P. Adams
Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It
occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
Franklin P. Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which
lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not
that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry Adams
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so
difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Henry Adams
Intimates are predestined.
Henry Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry Adams
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you
remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or
by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than
to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry Adams
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows
is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation,
not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I
long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts
long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or
the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and
ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in
providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your
ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must
leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
John Adams
In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
John Adams
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
John Adams
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,
I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson still survives.
Last words of President John Adams.
John Adams
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such
thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little
better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
John Quincy Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural
equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the
soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
John Quincy Adams
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if
he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
John Quincy Adams
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the
popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
John Quincy Adams
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly
and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
John Quincy Adams
Is not the brand of
double-dealer
stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not
fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
John Quincy Adams
It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year.
John Quincy Adams
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what
can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
John Quincy Adams
It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the
United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
John Quincy Adams
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected
with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
John Quincy Adams
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
John Quincy Adams
This is the last of earth! I am content.
John Quincy Adams
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of
reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
John Quincy Adams
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams
A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.
Scott Adams
Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.
Scott Adams
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
Scott Adams
Before
Dilbert,
I tried to become a computer programmer. In the early days of computing, I bought this
big, heavy, portable computer for my house. I spent two years nights and weekends trying to write games that I
thought I would sell. Turns out I'm not that good a programmer, so that was two years that didn't work out.
Scott Adams
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire
won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
Scott Adams
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams
Consultants eventually leave, which makes them excellent scapegoats for major management blunders.
Scott Adams
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Dilbert
became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
Scott Adams
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Scott Adams
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
Scott Adams
Executives can get away with having a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you're not working hard enough.
Scott Adams
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
Scott Adams
For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've
been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.
Scott Adams
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams
Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent
on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
Scott Adams
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Scott Adams
Home is pretty utopian.
Scott Adams
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words
for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams
I don't get embarrassed by the same things that other people do. I would say that probably the biggest thing
that holds people back is,
If I do this, I'm going to look like an idiot if it doesn't work out.
Scott Adams
I get mail; therefore I am.
Scott Adams
I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.
Scott Adams
I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.
Scott Adams
I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.
Scott Adams
I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information.
Scott Adams
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
I think
Dilbert
will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too
loudly.
Dilbert
is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
Scott Adams
I think if you talk to anybody who ever went from not having much to having enough to buy what they
wanted, they're always happier. Now I get that whole
$75,000 a year is some kind of magic number,
but my
experience is
more is better, up to a point.
Then there's a point where it doesn't make any difference.
Scott Adams
I try to avoid giving advice.
Scott Adams
I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an
elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.
Scott Adams
I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from
Black people. Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there's no fixing this. This can't be fixed.
Scott Adams
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say,
You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.
Scott Adams
I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.
Scott Adams
I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.
Scott Adams
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with
thought you'd be interested,
and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.
Scott Adams
I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.
Scott Adams
I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined
cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
Scott Adams
I've been identifying as Black for a while because I like to be on the winning team. And I like to help. I always thought if you
help the Black community, that's sort of the biggest lever, you could find the biggest benefit. But it turns out that nearly half of
that team doesn't think I'm okay to be white. Which is why I identified as Black so I could be on the winning team for a while.
Scott Adams
If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
Scott Adams
If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with white people-according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll-that's a hate group.
Response to a Rasmussen Report poll: "47 percent of Black respondents were not willing to say it’s OK to be white."
Scott Adams
If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people ... that's a hate group. And I don't want anything to do with
them, and based on how things are going, the best advice I could give to white people is to get the hell away from Black
people. Just get the fuck away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. 'Cause there's no fixing this. This can't be fixed.
Scott Adams
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a
game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge
makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?
Scott Adams
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains
simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds
that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.
Scott Adams
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe
has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
Scott Adams
If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you
are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.
Scott Adams
In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced
out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.
Scott Adams
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and
realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
Scott Adams
Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have.
Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal.
Scott Adams
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams
My failed corporate career became the fodder for the
Dilbert
comic. Once it became clear I would
not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it
would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.
Scott Adams
My investments have been hurt.
Scott Adams
My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.
Scott Adams
My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can't come back from this.
Scott Adams
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Scott Adams
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of
phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much
either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.
Scott Adams
One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes
over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.
Scott Adams
One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand
out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
Scott Adams
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams
People vote based on emotion. Period.
Scott Adams
Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president.
Trump knows psychology.
Scott Adams
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.
Scott Adams
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source
of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams
So I don't think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore. It doesn't make sense. There's
no longer a rational impulse. So I'm going to back off on being helpful to Black America because it doesn't seem like it pays off.
Scott Adams
Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.
Scott Adams
Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones.
But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
Scott Adams
The best things in life are silly.
Scott Adams
The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization
that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.
Scott Adams
The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.
Scott Adams
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams
The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family
and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
Scott Adams
The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For
me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.
Scott Adams
The only outcome is I get called a racist. That's the only outcome. It makes no sense to
help Black Americans if you're white. It's over. Don't even think it's worth trying.
Scott Adams
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the
only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
Scott Adams
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
Scott Adams
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Adams
We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel
different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.
Scott Adams
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams
When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.
Scott Adams
When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints
about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
Scott Adams
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
Scott Adams
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
You don't have to be a
person of influence
to be influential. In fact, the most
influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like
willpower in that there's
magical thinking
about it. You've got to be careful about
magical thinking.
Scott Adams
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed
beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry
than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down
from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion
for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Joseph Addison
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an
agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but
here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Joseph Addison
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Addison
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Joseph Addison
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience
your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and
therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red
with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph Addison
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect
we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Joseph Addison
Jesters do often prove prophets.
Joseph Addison
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot
be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils
enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment;
cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph Addison
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
See in what peace a Christian can die.
Joseph Addison
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already
corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
Joseph Addison
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a
perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Joseph Addison
The post of honour is a private station.
Joseph Addison
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt
flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life...
Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Joseph Addison
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and
in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be
sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph Addison
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
George Ade
A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
George Ade
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
George Ade
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade
Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
George Ade
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
George Ade
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
George Ade
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
George Ade
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
George Ade
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.
George Ade
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
George Ade
R-E-M-O-R-S-E!
Those dry Martinis did the work for me;
Last night at twelve I felt immense,
Today I feel like thirty cents.
My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot,
I'll try to eat, but I cannot.
It is no time for mirth and laughter,
The cold, grey dawn of the morning after.
George Ade
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
George Ade
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
George Ade
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Alfred Adler
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this
person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever
would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology,
which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from
the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to
Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note
who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast - easy at the beginning, that is. But
the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.
Alfred Adler
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to
speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler
Man knows much more than he understands.
Alfred Adler
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler
My difficulties belong to me!
Alfred Adler
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our
experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more
powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Alfred Adler
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human
nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as
natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Alfred Adler
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the
feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Alfred Adler
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Alfred Adler
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Alfred Adler
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop
Adventure is worthwhile.
Aesop
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Aesop
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop
Appearances are often deceiving.
Aesop
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else
does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Aesop
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop
Example is the best precept.
Aesop
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Aesop
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop
Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop
Plodding wins the race.
Aesop
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Aesop
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Aesop
The gods help them that help themselves.
Aesop
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Aesop
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Aesop
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible.
Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
Louis Agassiz
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz
Study nature, not books.
Louis Agassiz
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
Louis Agassiz
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his work when he does feel like it.
James Agate
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
James Agate
My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
James Agate
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
Shaw's plays are the price we
pay for Shaw's prefaces.
James Agate
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been
stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
Gianni Agnelli
And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their
foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
Gianni Agnelli
And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even
the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
Gianni Agnelli
I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions
on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Gianni Agnelli
I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars,
but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.
Gianni Agnelli
Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then
we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.
Gianni Agnelli
Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit
from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.
Gianni Agnelli
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.
Gianni Agnelli
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line,
heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
Gianni Agnelli
Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist
Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.
Gianni Agnelli
Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process
of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and
Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world.
They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic
of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their
own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever
event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one
must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent
body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion.
From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.
Responding to a question about the treatment of gays and lesbians in Iran
during a visit to Columbia University in New York City on September 24, 2007.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of
nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do
this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Our nation is today a powerful nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and
sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian
people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to
deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and
a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end
of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to
build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of
Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in
Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard H. Aiken
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to
eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Howard H. Aiken
There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
Howard H. Aiken
A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.
Roger Ailes
A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.
Roger Ailes
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and
capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
Roger Ailes
Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.
Roger Ailes
Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.
Roger Ailes
Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
Roger Ailes
CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.
Roger Ailes
CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are
some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.
Roger Ailes
CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
Roger Ailes
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.
Roger Ailes
Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.
Roger Ailes
Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because
some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.
Roger Ailes
Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel
automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a lower financial demographic.
Roger Ailes
Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.
Roger Ailes
Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there
is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.
Roger Ailes
Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.
Roger Ailes
Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to
put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
Roger Ailes
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.
Roger Ailes
I believe business news is general news.
Roger Ailes
I believe most people think the economy is very important.
Roger Ailes
I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.
Roger Ailes
I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.
Roger Ailes
I consider myself a freedom fighter, fighting for my clients.
Roger Ailes
I could never be elected.
Roger Ailes
I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.
Roger Ailes
I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.
Roger Ailes
I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.
Roger Ailes
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people
in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
Roger Ailes
I don't ignore anything. Somebody gets in my face, I get in their face.
Roger Ailes
I don't pay a lot of attention to communist infiltrators.
Roger Ailes
I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so
I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.
Roger Ailes
I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.
Roger Ailes
I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.
Roger Ailes
I don't think the liberal media hates me. I think they don't like what I say.
Roger Ailes
I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of New York Times
articles to see what I was like.
Roger Ailes
I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.
Roger Ailes
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon.
He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
Roger Ailes
I happen to think that the Latino audience is an essentially traditional audience and will go to Fox News for traditional American values.
Roger Ailes
I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.
Roger Ailes
I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
Roger Ailes
I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
Roger Ailes
I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.
Roger Ailes
I like Bloomberg; he's a friend.
Roger Ailes
I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate.
He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.
Roger Ailes
I like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.
Roger Ailes
I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.
Roger Ailes
I love pressure situations. I won't run for cover, and I'll try to take as much
of the heat as possible. Because I feel I can stand it better than most people.
Roger Ailes
I never want to get caught with not expecting something.
Roger Ailes
I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.
Roger Ailes
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
Roger Ailes
I quit politics because I hated it.
Roger Ailes
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
Roger Ailes
I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.
Roger Ailes
I think that Fox & Friends
audience is going to increase. That franchise in
the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.
Roger Ailes
I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep
them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with,
and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.
Roger Ailes
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about.
For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
Roger Ailes
I want to elect the next president.
Roger Ailes
I want to prove that a fat guy can get to 100 still working.
Roger Ailes
I was a political consultant for 40 years, and we never said that about a person. That's not a nice thing to say about anybody. It's not true.
Roger Ailes
I was in the Oval Office when Neil
Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage. I got to thinking, We have a
feed from the moon. We've got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.
Roger Ailes
I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.
Roger Ailes
I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.
Roger Ailes
I would like to be on Dancing with the Stars.
Roger Ailes
I'd like to hire Hillary
Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.
Roger Ailes
I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.
Roger Ailes
I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.
Roger Ailes
I'm not a very good reporter, and I'm not very good at holding my tongue. I can't stand it when people make up stuff.
Roger Ailes
I'm not in politics. I'm in the media business.
Roger Ailes
I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because
they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.
Roger Ailes
I've been an underdog all my life.
Roger Ailes
I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.
Roger Ailes
I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little
time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.
Roger Ailes
I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.
Roger Ailes
I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room?
What the hell is he doing?
I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.
Roger Ailes
If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.
Roger Ailes
If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.
Roger Ailes
If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to
our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.
Roger Ailes
If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.
Roger Ailes
If you are not being bombed, you are not in business.
Roger Ailes
If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, I have a solution to the Middle East problem,
and the other guy falls into the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?
Roger Ailes
If you're going to be mad at somebody, let's get mad at the terrorists.
Roger Ailes
If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around
and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.
Roger Ailes
If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.
Roger Ailes
If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.
Roger Ailes
In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
Roger Ailes
In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.
Roger Ailes
It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being
cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.
Roger Ailes
Joe McGinniss will be remembered as a talented man. He changed political writing forever in 1968. We differed on many things, but he had a good heart.
Roger Ailes
Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.
Roger Ailes
Money will find you if people believe in your message.
Roger Ailes
Most people don't want to see people in conflict.
Roger Ailes
My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.
Roger Ailes
My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.
Roger Ailes
My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.
Roger Ailes
My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.
Roger Ailes
Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.
Roger Ailes
Obama's the one
who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers
does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
Roger Ailes
People don't want to be informed. They want to feel informed.
Roger Ailes
People think in terms of stories. And when you are able to connect your vision or your plan or your idea to a story, it's far more compelling.
Roger Ailes
People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.
Roger Ailes
Personally, I'm right of center.
Roger Ailes
Television and I grew up together.
Roger Ailes
Television is not a gimmick.
Roger Ailes
Television is not a mirror; it is a hammer.
Roger Ailes
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up
everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
Roger Ailes
Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name
that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.
Roger Ailes
The American people probably know the economy is not doing well, but in a difficult time they want
to see something better, and they want to see a president that's going to make something better.
Roger Ailes
The audience will vote with their remote controls. You live and die by your ability to entertain, because it's a competitive world.
Roger Ailes
The best politics is right in the middle. But, unfortunately, the best ratings are on the fringes.
Roger Ailes
The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.
Roger Ailes
The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.
Roger Ailes
The easiest thing in the world is to have an opinion. The hardest thing is to change it.
Roger Ailes
The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.
Roger Ailes
The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.
Roger Ailes
The only question is how big the lies are going to be. That's what I say.
Roger Ailes
The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.
Roger Ailes
The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny
if he does a joke about John McCain and
they don't know who John McCain is.
Roger Ailes
There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.
Roger Ailes
There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.
Roger Ailes
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
Roger Ailes
There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.
Roger Ailes
To succeed in television, you need to know what you want and never let go of your vision.
Roger Ailes
Twitter is a wonderful device. And I call it a device, but there are people that are addicted
to it now. That's not good. You're really not very interesting using only so many letters.
Roger Ailes
Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.
Roger Ailes
Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.
Roger Ailes
Vanity Fair
is a left-wing rag.
Roger Ailes
We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.
Roger Ailes
We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.
Roger Ailes
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.
Roger Ailes
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
Roger Ailes
What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.
Roger Ailes
When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody
ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.
Roger Ailes
When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.
Roger Ailes
Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No
matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.
Roger Ailes
Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.
Roger Ailes
Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the
general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.
Roger Ailes
You are the only one who decides how much you are worth. Don't let anyone else tell you differently.
Roger Ailes
You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, Sure, that hurts
my feelings.
But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.
Roger Ailes
You don't change minds in America with facts. You change minds with emotion.
Roger Ailes
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex.
Roger Ailes
You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.
Roger Ailes
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
Roger Ailes
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the
federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
Todd Akin
As I said, I believe life starts at conception.
Todd Akin
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and
a belief that government should replace God.
Todd Akin
I am deeply concerned about America.
Todd Akin
I don't apologize.
Todd Akin
I don't know the future.
Todd Akin
I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.
Todd Akin
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Todd Akin
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.
Todd Akin
I stand up for the things I believe in.
Todd Akin
I was involved in some peaceful protests.
Todd Akin
I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
Todd Akin
I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
Todd Akin
I'm not a quitter.
Todd Akin
I'm standing for real freedom.
Todd Akin
If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
KTVI-TV interview on August 19, 2012.
Todd Akin
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that
there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
Todd Akin
Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.
Todd Akin
Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
Todd Akin
More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
Todd Akin
My base will show up in earthquakes.
Todd Akin
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique
information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
Todd Akin
Social Security is a tax.
Todd Akin
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
Todd Akin
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
Todd Akin
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
Todd Akin
We could learn from the Pilgrims by understanding that the Bible is
not just a book of how to be nice to people, it is an entire blueprint for the way civilization can be structured.
Todd Akin
We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
Todd Akin
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is
a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Todd Akin
You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.
Todd Akin
Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
Zoë Akins
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoë Akins
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
Zoë Akins
It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
Zoë Akins
No one can ever help loving anyone.
Zoë Akins
Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.
Zoë Akins
Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need ...
Zoë Akins
Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
Zoë Akins
The success-haters. That's what I call them - the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full
of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.The success-haters. That's what I call them - the people who have never got
what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.
Zoë Akins
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
Zoë Akins
Work alone qualifies us for life.
Zoë Akins
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Amos Bronson Alcott
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and
this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust.
He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it
is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
Louisa May Alcott
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I
can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
Father asked us what was God's
noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
Louisa May Alcott
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by
employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Louisa May Alcott
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
Louisa May Alcott
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman
question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
Louisa May Alcott
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Is it not meningitis?
Louisa May Alcott
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for
the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Louisa May Alcott
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a
direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott
Stay
is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we
all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Louisa May Alcott
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.
There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on a dunghill.
Richard Aldington
Yekaterina Alexeevna - See
Catherine
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
Muhammad Ali
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and
when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
Muhammad Ali
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Muhammad Ali
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
Muhammad Ali
Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up
for God, fight
for God, work
for God and
do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad Ali
America is the greatest country in the world.
Muhammad Ali
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
Muhammad Ali
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong
anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
Muhammad Ali
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a
dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
Don't feel sorry for me.
Muhammad Ali
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Muhammad Ali
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
Muhammad Ali
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich,
and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they
get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Muhammad Ali
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm
gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
Muhammad Ali
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.
Muhammad Ali
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.
Muhammad Ali
I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say
to me, Why did you do that?
This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.
Muhammad Ali
I don't have to be what you want me to be.
Muhammad Ali
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail;
only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
I give thanks to God and
to all the people in the UK who have supported me over the years.
Muhammad Ali
I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad Ali
I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
Muhammad Ali
I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the
screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets
them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Muhammad Ali
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right.
That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
I said I was The Greatest,
I never said I was the smartest!
Muhammad Ali
I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
Muhammad Ali
I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm
beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
Muhammad Ali
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.
Muhammad Ali
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Muhammad Ali
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali
I would say things like I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like
a bee! I'm pretty!
When white people heard me talking like this, some said, That black man talks too much. He's bragging.
Muhammad Ali
I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali
I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
Muhammad Ali
I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
Muhammad Ali
I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
Muhammad Ali
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali
I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites
when Jesus and
Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
Muhammad Ali
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
Muhammad Ali
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
Muhammad Ali
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
Muhammad Ali
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Muhammad Ali
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
Muhammad Ali
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
Muhammad Ali
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali
It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali
It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Muhammad Ali
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die
every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali
Life is so, so short. Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
Muhammad Ali
Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad Ali
My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, The Intoxication
of Life,
The Purpose of Life,
The Real Cause of Man's Distress,
The Journey to the Goal in Life,
and,
one of my favorites, The Heart of Man.
They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.
Muhammad Ali
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
Muhammad Ali
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad Ali
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali
My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight
the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice.
Muhammad Ali
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Muhammad Ali
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
Muhammad Ali
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white
boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
Muhammad Ali
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
Muhammad Ali
No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of
white slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end.
Muhammad Ali
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his
soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy,
there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was
the Elvis of boxing.
Muhammad Ali
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking
lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad Ali
Superman don't need no seat belt.
Muhammad Ali
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all
this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Muhammad Ali
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
Muhammad Ali
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world -
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I
joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
Muhammad Ali
The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to
force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn't want us? Why not clean up our own
neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people's neighborhoods?
Muhammad Ali
The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
Muhammad Ali
The white man is destroying the world.
Muhammad Ali
The word Islam
means peace.
The word Muslim
means one who surrenders
to God.
But the press makes us seem like haters.
Muhammad Ali
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the
USA won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, You're better than the Cassius of old.
Muhammad Ali
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to
integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
Muhammad Ali
What keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad Ali
When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.
Muhammad Ali
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown
people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
Muhammad Ali
You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
Muhammad Ali
You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned?
Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
Muhammad Ali
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Saul Alinsky
All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.
Saul Alinsky
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must
feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.
Saul Alinsky
As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as
it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin
where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
Saul Alinsky
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a
nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Saul Alinsky
Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public
benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts
got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea,
yea, Big Al.
Saul Alinsky
First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are
controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
Saul Alinsky
History is a relay of revolutions.
Saul Alinsky
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
Saul Alinsky
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
Saul Alinsky
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing
in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
Saul Alinsky
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to
your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.
Saul Alinsky
Last guys don't finish nice.
Saul Alinsky
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against
his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky
Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.
Saul Alinsky
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act
freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.
Saul Alinsky
No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
Saul Alinsky
Once I get into hell, I'll start organizing the have-nots over there.
Saul Alinsky
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your
reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the
freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
Saul Alinsky
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Saul Alinsky
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being
trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.
Saul Alinsky
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
Saul Alinsky
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Saul Alinsky
The Capone gang
was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
Saul Alinsky
The first step in community organization is community disorganization.
Saul Alinsky
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul Alinsky
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a dangerous enemy.
Saul Alinsky
The Prince
was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power.
Rules for Radicals
is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
Saul Alinsky
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
Saul Alinsky
To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of
operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.
Saul Alinsky
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Saul Alinsky
A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future,
should listen to your family, be like a doll so that everyone can play with her.
Sonita Alizadeh
Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger
whenever I go somewhere to talk about women's rights or make music, rap, or have interviews.
Sonita Alizadeh
Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to
make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!
Sonita Alizadeh
I am against forced marriage, and I'm not afraid to say it.
Sonita Alizadeh
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
Sonita Alizadeh
I don't like high heels.
Sonita Alizadeh
I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.
Sonita Alizadeh
I don't want to be famous. I want to change the world.
Sonita Alizadeh
I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.
Sonita Alizadeh
I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.
Sonita Alizadeh
I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to
see other possibilities for themselves, to have a vision for their own future.
Sonita Alizadeh
I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.
Sonita Alizadeh
In order to see truly where I am and where I want to go, I need to remember where I once was.
Sonita Alizadeh
It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.
Sonita Alizadeh
It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
Sonita Alizadeh
Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.
Sonita Alizadeh
My dream has always been to inspire young girls to see their own power and follow big dreams and realize that they have potential.
Sonita Alizadeh
My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.
Sonita Alizadeh
My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to talk about the painful experience of being a girl.
Sonita Alizadeh
My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can
find an issue that they care about and their own authentic way of expressing and sharing their message and working
for change. When you speak authentically about something that matters to you, your voice has even more power.
Sonita Alizadeh
My story is the story of millions of girls.
Sonita Alizadeh
Rapping is like telling my diary.
Sonita Alizadeh
Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a
child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.
Sonita Alizadeh
The biggest change of my life was coming to America.
Sonita Alizadeh
There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.
Sonita Alizadeh
There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and
start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.
Sonita Alizadeh
There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.
Sonita Alizadeh
When I rap, it's the only time I'm brave. It's the only time I can say what I want.
Sonita Alizadeh
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I
was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through
poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.
Sonita Alizadeh
When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.
Sonita Alizadeh
When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.
Sonita Alizadeh
When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S.
Sonita Alizadeh
When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.
Sonita Alizadeh
When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work,
or even leave the house without a male chaperone. The greatest moment was when that ended.
Sonita Alizadeh
Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less
knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while a few may wrest them to their own purposes.
Ethan Allen
In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have
ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Ethan Allen
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
Ethan Allen
The Gods of the valleys are not the Gods of the hills.
Ethan Allen
The people will have an end, and, as they say, the potter knows when the clay is out.
Ethan Allen
Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
Ethan Allen
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
Ethan Allen
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new
train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Ethan Allen
Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well - let 'em wait.
Ethan Allen
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.
Ethan Allen
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate
the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
Ethan Allen
A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
Fred Allen
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m.
to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
Fred Allen
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen
California is a great place to live if you're an orange.
Fred Allen
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
Fred Allen
During the Samuel Johnson days
they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
Fred Allen
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred Allen
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
Fred Allen
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
Fred Allen
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
Fred Allen
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
Fred Allen
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Fred Allen
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
Fred Allen
If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances
through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Fred Allen
Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the
shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
Fred Allen
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
Fred Allen
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
Fred Allen
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're
afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Fred Allen
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen
Television is a new medium, and I have discovered why it's called a new medium - because nothing is well done.
Fred Allen
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
Fred Allen
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
Fred Allen
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
Fred Allen
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Fred Allen
Was she old? When they lit all the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome with the heat.
Fred Allen
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Fred Allen
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes
and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
Fred Allen
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit
fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen
Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.
George Allen
China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.
George Allen
Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal
government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.
George Allen
I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.
George Allen
I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and
improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.
George Allen
I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about these introspective things.
George Allen
I have a great respect for incremental improvements, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes.
George Allen
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.
George Allen
I have no intention of running for office again.
George Allen
I like to motivate and inspire people.
George Allen
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our
history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
George Allen
I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.
George Allen
In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a
few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.
George Allen
In Virginia, the place where I grew up, the Civil War was a powerful image.
George Allen
It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure
them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.
George Allen
It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to we the people.
George Allen
Let's give a welcome to Macaca here.
George Allen
Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.
George Allen
My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.
George Allen
One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an income from the private sector is that you've got to make money.
George Allen
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.
George Allen
The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.
George Allen
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
George Allen
The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.
George Allen
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
George Allen
We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq
or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.
George Allen
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
George Allen
We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.
George Allen
We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and
weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.
George Allen
When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state
legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.
George Allen
You can't have more in benefits than you have in revenues.
George Allen
You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care.
George Allen
You may not have any extra cheese.
George Allen
A stockbroker is someone who takes all your money and invests it until it's gone.
Woody Allen
As the poet said, Only God can make a
tree,
probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a
plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Woody Allen
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen
Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
Woody Allen
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen
I am two with nature.
Woody Allen
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
Woody Allen
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Woody Allen
I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Woody Allen
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen
I'm astounded by people who want to know
the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
Woody Allen
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Woody Allen
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody Allen
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
Woody Allen
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody Allen
Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter
hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Woody Allen
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody Allen
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
Woody Allen
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody Allen
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen
Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Woody Allen
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, Be fruitful and multiply,
but not in those words.
Woody Allen
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Woody Allen
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody Allen
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen
The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.
Woody Allen
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
Woody Allen
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
Woody Allen
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody Allen
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
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Christina Rossetti
As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.
Gloria Allred
Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.
Gloria Allred
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won’t always open unless you fight for your rights.
Gloria Allred
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
Gloria Allred
Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.
Gloria Allred
Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.
Gloria Allred
Fighting injustice keeps you young.
Gloria Allred
I actually feel most relaxed when I'm working.
Gloria Allred
I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.
Gloria Allred
I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our
public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.
Gloria Allred
I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral
obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.
Gloria Allred
I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives
economically, psychologically, often physically. It’s all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we’re all being denied our rights.
Gloria Allred
I have known some wonderful men.
Gloria Allred
I have represented people in book deals.
Gloria Allred
I have two grandchildren.
Gloria Allred
I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that
there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women’s rights.
Gloria Allred
I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those
single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.
Gloria Allred
I was a single mother when my child was little.
Gloria Allred
I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.
Gloria Allred
I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.
Gloria Allred
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
Gloria Allred
I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women,
particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.
Gloria Allred
I'm pretty tough.
Gloria Allred
I'm proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them.
Gloria Allred
Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.
Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment of her client on November 7, 2011.
Gloria Allred
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
Gloria Allred
It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested
in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.
Gloria Allred
Justice may not always be easy, and it may not always be quick, but it will be done.
Gloria Allred
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
Gloria Allred
No one has the right to interfere with the life of another person or to cause that person harm or fear.
Gloria Allred
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be
singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.
Gloria Allred
The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
Gloria Allred
The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.
Gloria Allred
There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.
Gloria Allred
There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.
Gloria Allred
There is no change without sacrifice.
Gloria Allred
There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures
trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.
Gloria Allred
We're not going to win every battle. But we're going to fight every battle.
Gloria Allred
We've made progress, but we still have a long way to go.
Gloria Allred
Well, I like empowering my clients.
Gloria Allred
Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of
the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.
When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.
Gloria Allred
When you’re fighting for civil rights, it’s sometimes two steps forward and one
step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.
Gloria Allred
Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?
Gloria Allred
Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.
Gloria Allred
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other
standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar
An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part
to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
B. R. Ambedkar
Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease.
B. R. Ambedkar
Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus
from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
B. R. Ambedkar
Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized
that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
B. R. Ambedkar
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. Ambedkar
Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organization.
B. R. Ambedkar
Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint
communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
B. R. Ambedkar
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound
and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
B. R. Ambedkar
Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free, though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man.
B. R. Ambedkar
Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
B. R. Ambedkar
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests
have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar
However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be
bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
B. R. Ambedkar
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality, and fraternity.
B. R. Ambedkar
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar
I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
B. R. Ambedkar
I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last, and nothing else but Indians.
B. R. Ambedkar
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
B. R. Ambedkar
Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of
purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
B. R. Ambedkar
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the
Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
B. R. Ambedkar
Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, justice is another name for liberty, equality, and fraternity.
B. R. Ambedkar
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
B. R. Ambedkar
Learn to live in this world with self-respect.
B. R. Ambedkar
Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. Ambedkar
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise, both will wither and die.
B. R. Ambedkar
My final words of advice to you are: educate, agitate, and organize; have faith
in yourself. With justice on our side, I do not see how we can lose our battle.
B. R. Ambedkar
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one,
however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots
in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.
B. R. Ambedkar
No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community
which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
B. R. Ambedkar
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person
who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
B. R. Ambedkar
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is
correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
B. R. Ambedkar
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social
democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
B. R. Ambedkar
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who
defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B. R. Ambedkar
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
B. R. Ambedkar
Religion is for man and not man for religion.
B. R. Ambedkar
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates
into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
B. R. Ambedkar
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B. R. Ambedkar
Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of
abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
B. R. Ambedkar
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I
consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
B. R. Ambedkar
That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality,
goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in
revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
B. R. Ambedkar
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist
Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
B. R. Ambedkar
The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.
B. R. Ambedkar
The Constitution is not a mere lawyer’s document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.
B. R. Ambedkar
The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus
can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
B. R. Ambedkar
The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating,
which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
B. R. Ambedkar
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. Ambedkar
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B. R. Ambedkar
The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As
against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
B. R. Ambedkar
There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another
taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.
B. R. Ambedkar
They cannot make history who forget history.
B. R. Ambedkar
To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is
the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
B. R. Ambedkar
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he
lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar
We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
B. R. Ambedkar
We must stand on our own feet and fight as best as we can for our rights. So carry on your
agitation and organize your forces. Power and prestige will come to you through struggle.
B. R. Ambedkar
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system,
which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
B. R. Ambedkar
Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one
answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
B. R. Ambedkar
American Oscar Wilde - See
Oliver Herford
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri Frederic Amiel
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and
virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; outdistanced, crushed; he who
ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
Henri Frederic Amiel
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Henri Frederic Amiel
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we
examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who
are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our
faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even
if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp
is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of
thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who has no inner-life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to
read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own iniquities. Every
successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We only understand that which already is within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What we do not understand we have no right to judge.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Without passion, without haste, we may reach truth, but we can never grasp it.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or
good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn’t allow it to spoil your lunch.
Kingsley Amis
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had
been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.
Kingsley Amis
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
Kingsley Amis
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Kingsley Amis
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to
grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
Kingsley Amis
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Kingsley Amis
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
Kingsley Amis
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Kingsley Amis
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be
a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
Kingsley Amis
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Kingsley Amis
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Kingsley Amis
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Kingsley Amis
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
Kingsley Amis
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Kingsley Amis
The Scandinavians are dear people but they’ve never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
Kingsley Amis
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Kingsley Amis
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of
failure, and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover.
Kingsley Amis
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
Kingsley Amis
Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it ... it knew at once and
sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you.
Kingsley Amis
You can lead a horse to water (but a pencil must be led).
Kingsley Amis
Amma - See
Amy Carmichael
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Jack Anderson
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die—and
what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?
Jack Anderson
Health experts working on a union-backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were
stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn’t support the program but tried to discourage participation in it.
Jack Anderson
I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.
Jack Anderson
I don’t like to hurt people, I really don’t like it at all. But in order to
get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
Jack Anderson
I look at the universe and I know there’s an architect.
Jack Anderson
In Washington, truth is so precious that it should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Jack Anderson
Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.
Jack Anderson
It’s my father’s legacy. My father’s view was that the public is the employer
of these government employees and has the right to know what they’re up to.
Jack Anderson
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak
immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Jack Anderson
Once an innovation is implemented, it is no longer innovative.
Jack Anderson
That’s a great team we lost to. It just wasn’t our day.
Jack Anderson
The First Amendment means everything to me.
Jack Anderson
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
Jack Anderson
The reporter's lot is the one of the solitary, the outsider looking in.
Jack Anderson
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
Jack Anderson
A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.
Julie Andrews
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Julie Andrews
Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, and I
suppose I got more attention than my stepbrothers because at least I got to travel with my parents.
Julie Andrews
Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I
decided the best way to sing I Have Confidence
was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.
Julie Andrews
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.
Julie Andrews
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my
dressing table... one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
Julie Andrews
And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
Julie Andrews
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews
Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.
Julie Andrews
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds -
there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.
Julie Andrews
Behaving like a princess is work. It’s not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It’s more about how you are inside.
Julie Andrews
Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
Julie Andrews
By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.
Julie Andrews
Did you ever notice the color of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and red. I think she had a secret life going on there.
Julie Andrews
Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, I hope I do
it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.
Julie Andrews
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
Julie Andrews
For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.
Julie Andrews
Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
Julie Andrews
Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.
Julie Andrews
Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.
Julie Andrews
How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?
Julie Andrews
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him
and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
Julie Andrews
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid
equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
Julie Andrews
I am an optimistic lady.
Julie Andrews
I am thrilled to be dame. It's one of those - the fact that you have been
honored by your country is what it's all about, and it just feels good right there.
Julie Andrews
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was home.
Julie Andrews
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
Julie Andrews
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My
mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Julie Andrews
I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about.
It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
Julie Andrews
I did all of my learning on My Fair Lady.
Julie Andrews
I did My Fair Lady
for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.
Julie Andrews
I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost
soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.
Julie Andrews
I do get a lot of gifts. I get a lot of things to sign, too. People do collect the memorabilia. Between
Poppins
and The Sound of Music,
there were beautiful plates that they made, and I've signed a lot of them.
Julie Andrews
I do not knock Poppins
or The Sound of Music.
They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.
Julie Andrews
I do wish somewhere there was a film of our stage production of My Fair Lady.
Julie Andrews
I don't know if I can live on my own, especially since my husband died. My children are
trying to convince me to move to New York. They are trying to get me to be closer to them.
Julie Andrews
I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has,
or Bette Davis.
Julie Andrews
I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.
Julie Andrews
I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.
Julie Andrews
I had a lot of learning on my feet.
Julie Andrews
I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful
about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold
on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.
Julie Andrews
I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, Oh, you'll get a much better
education in life.
I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.
Julie Andrews
I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
Julie Andrews
I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.
Julie Andrews
I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in it or reveal it.
Julie Andrews
I like - I actually love classical music very much.
Julie Andrews
I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.
Julie Andrews
I love that President and Mrs. Obama are
embracing the arts. I am so delighted.
Julie Andrews
I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.
Julie Andrews
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
Julie Andrews
I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of
wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time.
Julie Andrews
I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.
Julie Andrews
I think any director is intimidating.
Julie Andrews
I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's
like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.
Julie Andrews
I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful
character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her.
Julie Andrews
I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with
other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.
Julie Andrews
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
Julie Andrews
I turned down The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.
Julie Andrews
I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.
Julie Andrews
I was a very sad little girl.
Julie Andrews
I was always told I was not pretty enough.
Julie Andrews
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was
fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
Julie Andrews
I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.
Julie Andrews
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville,
which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
Julie Andrews
I was working from a very early age.
Julie Andrews
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
Julie Andrews
I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden
or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.
Julie Andrews
I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.
Julie Andrews
I'd say just go with the flow. And I take my hat off to any mother out there who works full-time and raises a family as well. It's hard work.
Julie Andrews
I'm beginning to think that I like the behind-the-scenes work as much as I do in front of the camera as I get a little bit older.
Julie Andrews
I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.
Julie Andrews
I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.
Julie Andrews
I'm not very good with rap and things like that.
Julie Andrews
I'm not very good with some of the more modern songs that have an awful lot of
doo wah wahs,
if you know what I mean, because I can't do anything with them.
Julie Andrews
I'm the lucky lady that was asked to be in those wonderful iconic pieces.
Julie Andrews
I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.
Julie Andrews
I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far
away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous.
Julie Andrews
I've got a good right hook.
Julie Andrews
I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.
Julie Andrews
I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.
Julie Andrews
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
Julie Andrews
If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.
Julie Andrews
If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert,
or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.
Julie Andrews
If you’re passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly.
Julie Andrews
If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family,
that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.
Julie Andrews
In my early years, I was much too ignorant and didn't realize how desperately important it all is,
how really important the lyrics are. And for me as a singer, I am a lady who takes the lyrics first.
Julie Andrews
In my life, it would probably be giving birth to my daughter. That probably is the most, the thing that moved me the most,
was the most memorable, the most wonderful, the most miraculous. I think a lot of women would probably feel that way, too.
Julie Andrews
Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.
Julie Andrews
Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an Old Man River,
way down in the bass.
Julie Andrews
Marriage is the hardest work you're ever going to do.
Julie Andrews
More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.
Julie Andrews
Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.
Julie Andrews
My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster
times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.
Julie Andrews
My mum gave me pretty good genes in that department. She had gorgeous skin. That
good English complexion. She never seemed to have a blemish that I knew of.
Julie Andrews
My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.
Julie Andrews
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Julie Andrews
My voice needed oiling, and then it took off.
Julie Andrews
One of our books has been made into a musical, The Great American Mousical,
which I directed at
the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. And another, Simeon's Gift,
has been adapted for a symphony
orchestra and five performers. I'm also a very proud member of the board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Julie Andrews
Our first visit to the Creature Shop is one of the days I will never, ever forget. There was just so much to see and admire and be gobsmacked by.
Julie Andrews
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.
Julie Andrews
Simeon's Gift
is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
Julie Andrews
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
Julie Andrews
Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
Julie Andrews
Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.
Julie Andrews
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Julie Andrews
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Julie Andrews
The amateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.
Julie Andrews
The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.
Julie Andrews
The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.
Julie Andrews
The arts need funding.
Julie Andrews
The love we have for our children is like nothing else in the world.
Julie Andrews
The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an
end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.
Julie Andrews
The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
Julie Andrews
There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.
Julie Andrews
There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an
orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on
their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.
Julie Andrews
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor
them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
Julie Andrews
Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely,
but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.
Julie Andrews
Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.
Julie Andrews
Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for
those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.
Julie Andrews
When I did The Sound of Music
and Mary Poppins
and The Americanization of Emily,
all three
were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to
make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.
Julie Andrews
When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're
passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.
Julie Andrews
When in doubt, stand still.
Julie Andrews
When one door closes, another window opens.
Julie Andrews
When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences,
depending on what time of the week it is, how long the pubs have been open, and things like that.
Julie Andrews
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its
history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.
Julie Andrews
Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns
or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?
Julie Andrews
You can't bring the arts too soon to kids.
Julie Andrews
You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.
Julie Andrews
You never start out being a star.
Julie Andrews
You take any job that comes along, and if you're really lucky, the movie takes off.
Julie Andrews
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
Julie Andrews
You're always changing your thoughts about things.
Julie Andrews
Pierre Andrézel - See
Isak Dinesen
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
Maya Angelou
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other
virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's
slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Maya Angelou
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your
table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.
Maya Angelou
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Maya Angelou
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or
Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or
the music of Chopin - find some
beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability
to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.
Maya Angelou
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou
How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya Angelou
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library
in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any
town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
Maya Angelou
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Maya Angelou
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya Angelou
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past,
but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Maya Angelou
I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.
Maya Angelou
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that
the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
Maya Angelou
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for
whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.
Maya Angelou
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
Maya Angelou
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya Angelou
I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all
right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.
Maya Angelou
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader
who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
Maya Angelou
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya Angelou
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than
walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people
used to call mother wit
means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
Maya Angelou
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
Maya Angelou
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou
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
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a
brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya Angelou
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
In all my work, I try to say - You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?
Maya Angelou
In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya Angelou
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love
costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances,
their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
Maya Angelou
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
Maya Angelou
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They
honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some
people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot
practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the
actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and
die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican,
Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Maya Angelou
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Maya Angelou
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya Angelou
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder
blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.
Maya Angelou
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not
look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call
God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.
Maya Angelou
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Maya Angelou
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive
alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we
are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light,
according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I
need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya Angelou
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to
do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time
you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
Maya Angelou
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Maya Angelou
When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I
can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.
Maya Angelou
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and
remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Maya Angelou
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish
history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
Maya Angelou
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all
there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
I hope that's not where we're going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really
looking toward those Second Amendment remedies. They're saying: My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?
Radio interview in January, 2010.
Sharron Angle
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to
have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
La La Anthony
Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
David Antin
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. Monsieur, I beg your pardon.
Marie Antoinette
Rodolfo
Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla - See
Rudolph Valentino
Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.
George Appel
There's an app for that.
iPhone slogan.
Apple
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Victor Appleton
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula - See
Pancho Villa
One lesson a man learns from Harvard Business School is that an executive is only as good as his health.
Jeffrey Archer
Never sing in chorus, if you want to be heard.
J. F. Archibald
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When
the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
Sherry Argov
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris
Ari - See
Aristotle Onassis
Margot Fonteyn de Arias - See
Margot Fonteyn
Aristo - See
Aristotle Onassis
Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right
extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.
Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.
Victoria Arlen
I never doped.
Lance Armstrong
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
The living need charity more than the dead.
George Arnold
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
Matthew Arnold
Francois-Marie Arouet - See
Voltaire
I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry,
and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
Jake Arrieta
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
God first, family second, career third.
Mary Kay Ash
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible
decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the
World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.
Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith
Am I dying or is this my birthday?
Nancy Astor
You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about
giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end,
The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend;
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire;
Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
W. H. Auden
Happy Birthday, Johnny,
Live beyond your income,
Travel for enjoyment,
Follow your own nose.
W. H. Auden
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
W. H. Auden
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
W. H. Auden
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Augustine
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
- See
Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Vespasianus Augustus - See
Vespasian
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and
pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Aupumut
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Nothing, but death.
Jane Austen
When that glass broke and
Stone Cold
was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building,
that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Steve Austin
This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor where people can sustain a competitive advantage for very long.
Richard D'Aveni
Whenever you fall, pick up something.
Oswald Avery
Salad. I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know. Have you noticed? You start one side of
your plate and by the time you've got to the other, there's a fresh crop of lettuce taken root and sprouted up.
Alan Ayckbourn
Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the
soft word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
Alan Ayckbourn