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
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
Richard Aldington
Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before.
Richard Aldington
All nations teach their children to be 'patriotic', and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
Richard Aldington
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
Richard Aldington
Cats are like donkeys and camels; they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.
Richard Aldington
Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art.
Richard Aldington
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.
Richard Aldington
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
Richard Aldington
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.
Richard Aldington
We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria.
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
Ellen Alleyne - See
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 cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the
woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
Maya Angelou
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya Angelou
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the
company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The
reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.
Maya Angelou
At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person
come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, That's an American
because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.
Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
Maya Angelou
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
Maya Angelou
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You
can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, That's life.
Maya Angelou
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow
anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I
grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and
rude. Dickens, I could
tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
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
Effective action is always unjust.
Maya Angelou
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Maya Angelou
Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to
say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
Maya Angelou
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the
Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya Angelou
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
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.
Maya Angelou
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he
is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music,
mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
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
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're
the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya Angelou
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, I write for money.
Yes, I think
everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
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 am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for
ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
Maya Angelou
I became the kind of parent my mother was to 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 could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if
someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.
Maya Angelou
I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
Maya Angelou
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord
says, Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.
Maya Angelou
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
Maya Angelou
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism
of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya Angelou
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya Angelou
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good
citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
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 keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to
come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
Maya Angelou
I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.
Maya Angelou
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate
Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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 one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I'm finished. Bye.
And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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 like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
Maya Angelou
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
Maya Angelou
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Maya Angelou
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I
wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
Maya Angelou
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya Angelou
I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was
influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Maya Angelou
I love the song I Hope You Dance
by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
Maya Angelou
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing,
admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
Maya Angelou
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true
for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who
really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.
Maya Angelou
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the
house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
Maya Angelou
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make
sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Maya Angelou
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and
read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Maya Angelou
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
Maya Angelou
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
Maya Angelou
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
Maya Angelou
I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and
beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
Maya Angelou
I think Clinton, after getting into office and
into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to
be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
Maya Angelou
I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came
closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.
Maya Angelou
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya Angelou
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
Maya Angelou
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
Maya Angelou
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with Porgy and Bess,
the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
Maya Angelou
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
Maya Angelou
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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 wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
Maya Angelou
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit
there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.
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 write some country music. There's a song called I Hope You Dance.
Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Maya Angelou
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya Angelou
I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a
learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.
Maya Angelou
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've
even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
Maya Angelou
I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people
look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
Maya Angelou
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as
wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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 like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying
to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, I'm a Christian.
I always think,
Already? You've already got it?
I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.
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'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be
completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.
Maya Angelou
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good
Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.
Maya Angelou
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
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
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Maya Angelou
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud
A-hem!
from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
Maya Angelou
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya Angelou
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we
have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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
If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would
be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya Angelou
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince
your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya Angelou
If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that
you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
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 a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
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
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
Maya Angelou
It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how
the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya Angelou
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
Maya Angelou
Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black
people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was
the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday
evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.
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 greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya Angelou
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
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 mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I
thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother.
Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
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
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, Well, Maya Angelou has a new
book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.
Those are the ones I want to grab by the
throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
Maya Angelou
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I
play Bach and Chopin and
turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
Maya Angelou
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you
begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
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
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming
pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya Angelou
One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou
Shakespeare - I was very
influenced - still am - by Shakespeare.
I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.
Maya Angelou
Some critics will write Maya Angelou is
a natural writer
- which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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 fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance.
It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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 language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the
Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself;
I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
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 only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the
virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
Maya Angelou
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Maya Angelou
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the
leaders
must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya Angelou
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
Maya Angelou
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds
in heaven or on earth.
Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, Yes, I deserve it.
Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
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
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to
explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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 I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Maya Angelou
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the
neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya Angelou
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me
saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
Maya Angelou
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, Children's Letters to God.
You can open it anywhere.
One I read recently said, Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
Maya Angelou
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, Run like hell and all of fire.
You don't want modesty, you want humility.
Maya Angelou
Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, Sister
mine, I'm going to make you some soup.
And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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
Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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 can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I
mean having enough courage to stand up and say, I forgive. I'm finished with it.
Maya Angelou
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so
sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, I'm a representative.
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
Achievement is a state of mind. It's not a possession. It's not a goal. It's not a destination. It's a process.
Sharron Angle
Age is just a number. It's how you use it that counts.
Sharron Angle
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a
country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend
upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle
And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country
great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
Sharron Angle
And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government,
we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.
Sharron Angle
Beauty is not in the face; it's in the mind of the beholder.
Sharron Angle
Becoming a great athlete is not about being the best at what you do. It's about being the best you can be.
Sharron Angle
Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government
regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.
Sharron Angle
Change is constant. It's not a thing that happens to you. It's a thing you do.
Sharron Angle
Challenges are opportunities to grow.
Sharron Angle
Commitment is more important than talent.
Sharron Angle
Competition is a mindset. It's not a game.
Sharron Angle
Confidence is the result of self-discipline.
Sharron Angle
Don't let fear stop you from doing what you believe in.
Sharron Angle
Effort is the currency of success.
Sharron Angle
Embrace your mistakes. Learn from them.
Sharron Angle
Failure is another stepping stone to success.
Sharron Angle
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Sharron Angle
Freedom is the choice to follow your dreams.
Sharron Angle
Greatness is a choice, not a gift.
Sharron Angle
Hard work is the key to success.
Sharron Angle
Health is wealth.
Sharron Angle
Health is the greatest wealth.
Sharron Angle
He who has health has hope.
Sharron Angle
He who has hope has everything.
Sharron Angle
Humility is the key to success.
Sharron Angle
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not
for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.
Sharron Angle
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 knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who
would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.
Sharron Angle
I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.
Sharron Angle
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.
Sharron Angle
I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to
marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.
Sharron Angle
I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the
inheritance of their children. Are we going to pass down liberty or deficits? And that's really what this movement is about.
Sharron Angle
I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.
Sharron Angle
I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.
Sharron Angle
I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one
of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.
Sharron Angle
I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.
Sharron Angle
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
Sharron Angle
I've never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.
Sharron Angle
If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.
Sharron Angle
Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the
ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
Sharron Angle
People have always said - those words, too conservative,
is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that
about Thomas Jefferson
and George Washington
and Benjamin Franklin.
Sharron Angle
President Obama and Harry
Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent
what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.
Sharron Angle
The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their
government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.
Sharron Angle
The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what
I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.
Sharron Angle
The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the
Republican Party is fighting against me... They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.
Sharron Angle
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.
Sharron Angle
There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.
Sharron Angle
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go
out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
Sharron Angle
We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.
Sharron Angle
We need to prioritize those expenditures of the federal government in A, B and C priorities... And I believe that on the C priority
list are things like the Departments of Education and Energy, and those are the places where we should begin those defunding.
Sharron Angle
What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But
going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more.
Sharron Angle
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest
job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into
our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
Sharron Angle
You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your
children and you say How are you?
- and what you are really asking is, Do you still have your job?
And are you able to make the mortgage payment?
, That resonates across the state, not across party lines.
Sharron Angle
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
Sharron Angle
A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.
Jennifer Aniston
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
Jennifer Aniston
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
Jennifer Aniston
As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
Jennifer Aniston
As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.
Jennifer Aniston
Beauty is inner confidence. Peace. Kindness. Honesty.
Jennifer Aniston
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston
Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, I hope you all enjoy it.
Jennifer Aniston
Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
Jennifer Aniston
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
Jennifer Aniston
Everybody relates to having a dream.
Jennifer Aniston
Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.
Jennifer Aniston
Free love never works.
Jennifer Aniston
Friends
will always remain friends.
Jennifer Aniston
Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.
Jennifer Aniston
Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
Jennifer Aniston
I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love.
Jennifer Aniston
I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God - never
wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
Jennifer Aniston
I always say don't make plans, make options.
Jennifer Aniston
I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!
Jennifer Aniston
I am a creature of habit.
Jennifer Aniston
I am pretty controlled I have to say.
Jennifer Aniston
I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, What the hell!
and did something crazy.
Jennifer Aniston
I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't feel my age. I feel young every day.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I
don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine
cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
Jennifer Aniston
I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.
Jennifer Aniston
I entertain for a living, and I entertain.
Jennifer Aniston
I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.
Jennifer Aniston
I feel young every day.
Jennifer Aniston
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Jennifer Aniston
I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
Jennifer Aniston
I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
Jennifer Aniston
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
Jennifer Aniston
I just feel lucky.
Jennifer Aniston
I just stay fit and in shape.
Jennifer Aniston
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
Jennifer Aniston
I love being home. I have friends that come over.
Jennifer Aniston
I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.
Jennifer Aniston
I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.
Jennifer Aniston
I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
Jennifer Aniston
I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston
I love to read about what my love life is really like.
Jennifer Aniston
I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.
Jennifer Aniston
I realized it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.
Jennifer Aniston
I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.
Jennifer Aniston
I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.
Jennifer Aniston
I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.
Jennifer Aniston
I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
Jennifer Aniston
I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have
a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
Jennifer Aniston
I think rage is so ugly.
Jennifer Aniston
I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
Jennifer Aniston
I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.
Jennifer Aniston
I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.
Jennifer Aniston
I want to have it all.
Jennifer Aniston
I want to see friends more and travel more.
Jennifer Aniston
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
Jennifer Aniston
I was always the mediator.
Jennifer Aniston
I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
Jennifer Aniston
I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.
Jennifer Aniston
I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.
Jennifer Aniston
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 wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.
Jennifer Aniston
I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.
Jennifer Aniston
I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and
wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm a sweats and UGGs girl. Very casual.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm enjoying simplifying things.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm just so happy, and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm lucky if I write a letter.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm really happy. Really!
Jennifer Aniston
I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.
Jennifer Aniston
I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
Jennifer Aniston
I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
Jennifer Aniston
I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!
Jennifer Aniston
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
Jennifer Aniston
I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.
Jennifer Aniston
In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
Jennifer Aniston
It gets so boring you know just to do the same thing over and over again.
Jennifer Aniston
It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.
Jennifer Aniston
It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear
you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.
Jennifer Aniston
It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.
Jennifer Aniston
It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.
Jennifer Aniston
It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.
Jennifer Aniston
Kids are messy!
Jennifer Aniston
Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
Jennifer Aniston
Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an
extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.
Jennifer Aniston
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
Jennifer Aniston
Marriage is wonderful.
Jennifer Aniston
Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person
really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the
prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.
Jennifer Aniston
My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!
Jennifer Aniston
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
Jennifer Aniston
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
Jennifer Aniston
My friends love coming over because they get fed.
Jennifer Aniston
My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
Jennifer Aniston
My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
Jennifer Aniston
My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Jennifer Aniston
No, I'm not adopting any children.
Jennifer Aniston
Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, Hey, I'm not going too bad today.
But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.
Jennifer Aniston
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
Jennifer Aniston
Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.
Jennifer Aniston
Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.
Jennifer Aniston
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
Jennifer Aniston
OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Jennifer Aniston
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston
One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the
bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.
Jennifer Aniston
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
Jennifer Aniston
People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't.
Jennifer Aniston
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
Jennifer Aniston
People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.
Jennifer Aniston
Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.
Jennifer Aniston
Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.
Jennifer Aniston
That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.
Jennifer Aniston
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston
The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!
Jennifer Aniston
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
Jennifer Aniston
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston
The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
Jennifer Aniston
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
Jennifer Aniston
The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've
always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.
Jennifer Aniston
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
Jennifer Aniston
There are many stages of grief.
Jennifer Aniston
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
Jennifer Aniston
There is nothing you can control about love.
Jennifer Aniston
To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
Jennifer Aniston
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Jennifer Aniston
We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us goes, we all go. One of us wouldn't leave. It wouldn't be the show it is without each of us.
Jennifer Aniston
Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.
Jennifer Aniston
What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?
Jennifer Aniston
When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
Jennifer Aniston
When I was 22, I was having a ball!
Jennifer Aniston
When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
Jennifer Aniston
When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.
Jennifer Aniston
When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk
down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.
Jennifer Aniston
When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.
Jennifer Aniston
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up
almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Jennifer Aniston
Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
Jennifer Aniston
Wrinkles happen to human beings.
Jennifer Aniston
Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!
Jennifer Aniston
You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
Jennifer Aniston
You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.
Jennifer Aniston
You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.
Jennifer Aniston
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
Jennifer Aniston
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a goddess circle
.
Jennifer Aniston
You train your man to do nothing.
Jennifer Aniston
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the
press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.
Jennifer Aniston
Your body will tell you what it needs.
Jennifer Aniston
A fancy lotion is always a great gift for Mom!
La La Anthony
Anytime you look good, you feel good.
La La Anthony
As a mom, I know how important it is for my son Kiyan to stay healthy so he doesn't miss school days.
La La Anthony
At heart I am a tomboy.
La La Anthony
Being independent opens the doors to so many other things for you.
La La Anthony
Believe in the power of your dreams.
La La Anthony
Comfort is important. I wanna put jeans on and kind of forget about them unless someone is giving me a compliment on
how they look. You don't want to be fussing all day, especially as a working woman or a mom running around with kids.
La La Anthony
Don't be afraid to take risks, that's where the magic happens.
La La Anthony
Don't wait for opportunities, create them.
La La Anthony
For breakfast, I usually like to do either a protein shake if I'm rushing out the door, or egg whites and turkey bacon are also a go-to for me.
La La Anthony
Having my name on a cosmetics line has always been a dream, one I'm excited to share.
La La Anthony
He should be there to hold you up, not tear you down.
La La Anthony
I actually speak Spanish fluently.
La La Anthony
I carry Caress Body Wash in Tempting Whisper to clean my hands. The scent lasts throughout the day!
La La Anthony
I definitely don't feel like I'm what Hollywood thinks of when they think of a Latina actress at all. They can't wrap their minds around it.
La La Anthony
I definitely had to take a lot of direction from stylists and make up artists and
hair stylists, because I'm very much more of a sweat pants and sneakers kind of girl.
La La Anthony
I definitely pray.
La La Anthony
I don't think there's anyone that's more beautiful than Halle Berry.
La La Anthony
I enjoy making people laugh and making them smile.
La La Anthony
I feel so many times with clothing lines, they don't talk to women to see what they want.
La La Anthony
I had to know that for me to be successful in all aspects of my life, I have to work.
La La Anthony
I hate chapped lips. I absolutely hate chapped lips.
La La Anthony
I hate when hair looks like it's been styled.
La La Anthony
I have a kid so I like to take pictures.
La La Anthony
I have a trainer. I love to do regular weight training, and I love to do boxing.
La La Anthony
I have a very strong faith in God, and I have a strong family base.
La La Anthony
I have great family and friends who constantly uplift me and make me feel good about myself.
La La Anthony
I have mountains of the blue Neutrogena makeup wipes in the bottom of the cabinet in my bathroom. It is all you see. We order them by the caseload.
La La Anthony
I have to be able to work and do the things I do. And I want to be able to be an example of my son.
La La Anthony
I just feel like so many people see you do one thing and they feel like that's all you can do. It's always just do this and stay in your lane.
La La Anthony
I learned that life is filled with ups and downs and it's just about how you react to them.
La La Anthony
I like to do my contour the bronzy kind of way so it is not too strong and you can see the highlights on the cheekbones. I use bronzer as my contour.
La La Anthony
I live for my son.
La La Anthony
I love Rihanna's products from Fenty Beauty.
La La Anthony
I love Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. You see the love, and you can see the support, and
they partner on things and produce together. But she has a life, and he has a life.
La La Anthony
I pray every morning and night before bed.
La La Anthony
I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.
La La Anthony
I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.
La La Anthony
I see myself stepping more heavily into the producing world. I like having that control, and
being in control so to speak, and being part of picking great material and bringing it to life.
La La Anthony
I stay up really late, even if I'm not working; I don't go to bed early.
La La Anthony
I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.
La La Anthony
I think I've gotten really good at putting on lashes. I can do it with my hand while people need tweezers or something to put them on.
La La Anthony
I think people can read authenticity and they know when you're involved and when you're just slapping your name on something.
La La Anthony
I think that's why I was able to go so far in my life and career - because my mom always supported me, even when I had the craziest ideas ever.
La La Anthony
I want to be a great actress.
La La Anthony
I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.
La La Anthony
I want to write books.
La La Anthony
I was told MTV VJs have no career after MTV, and I'm like, that's never going to be me. I was
always about not feeding into the negativity and proving to people that I can do more than one thing.
La La Anthony
I went through that phase where I shaved the entire side of my head off - I actually love the
way it looks, but it doesn't really work when you're walking into a room for an audition.
La La Anthony
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
La La Anthony
I'm a gambler and love slot machines.
La La Anthony
I'm all about trying to help others out there and giving the best advice based on my experiences - so if I can continue to do that, I'm really happy.
La La Anthony
I'm always down to switch up my scents and love discovering new products.
La La Anthony
I'm eating right.
La La Anthony
I'm in the gym every day.
La La Anthony
I'm not one of those people that takes the best, best care of myself. I try to do better.
La La Anthony
I'm someone that's a hard worker and takes their job seriously and gives it all they've got.
La La Anthony
I'm terrified of mice or any type of rodent.
La La Anthony
I'm very forthcoming, I'm really expressive.
La La Anthony
I've had jeans I liked a lot of things about, but then there would be one thing I didn't
like, whether it was the bottom not being fitted enough or the top squeezed you too much.
La La Anthony
If you feel good about yourself on the inside, that's gonna show to people. I don't think it's all about makeup and hair and how you
dress. I think it's more of an inner thing and how you feel about yourself and that's ultimately what will shine through no matter what.
La La Anthony
If you smell good, you feel good, and your day's fabulous.
La La Anthony
If you walk out of the house and you feel like you look good, it changes the way you walk into a room. It changes your attitude and it changes your vibe.
La La Anthony
In business, you cannot be afraid to ask questions.
La La Anthony
In New York, I can be a little edgier - I'll wear sneakers, combat boots, jeans. In L.A., I
don't go as far. I find myself taking more of a risk when it comes to style in New York.
La La Anthony
In the house, I have a drawer that's just filled with Carmex. It's just my thing.
La La Anthony
It was life-changing to be in high school and be on the radio. But it was a heavy schedule. There are some times
I would work 2 A.M. to 6 A.M. and get off and go right to school. So it was really crazy but it was worth it.
La La Anthony
It's a common issue that you see out there, where some families aren't as accepting of what people choose to be in their life.
La La Anthony
It's just all about the multi-hyphenate now. No one's just doing one thing. Even working actors have businesses and are entrepreneurs.
La La Anthony
Just to be a part of anything that Queen Latifah is
involved in is an honor, because she's such an amazing person and an amazing actress.
La La Anthony
Life has taught me that sometimes you have to reevaluate your lines in the sand.
La La Anthony
Love yourself first.
La La Anthony
Makeup is great, but you need to make sure you take it off at the end of the night - sleeping with it on is bad.
La La Anthony
Marriage is hard.
La La Anthony
My eyes change colors - weird!
La La Anthony
My family and God is my strength.
La La Anthony
My grandfather was extremely dark and from Puerto Rico, but his brother had blond hair and
blue eyes. There are so many different shades, and I think Hollywood has yet to realize that.
La La Anthony
My mom always says, Worry when people don't care about you.
And that's what I tell myself.
La La Anthony
My mom just always taught me to let people live, let people be who they are without restrictions, without limitations.
La La Anthony
My wallet is full of change. I'm like, Why is this bag so heavy? Oh, yeah. It's the $100 in quarters!
La La Anthony
My whole family cooks and I'm in charge of setting the vibes.
La La Anthony
People can tell if you don't know what you're talking about.
La La Anthony
Success is not a destination, it's a journey.
La La Anthony
Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.
La La Anthony
Tailgating is going to the game, homegating is celebrating at home. So you bring
in the apparel, the T-shirts, the accessories to kinda make your home feel cool.
La La Anthony
That is my priority, that my son is healthy and happy. I will do whatever I can to ensure that, and my husband is the exact same way.
La La Anthony
That's what's great about my circle of friends is we all really look out for each other.
La La Anthony
The biggest power play in the world is understanding your own power and then unleashing it to reach your goals and follow your dreams.
La La Anthony
The industry just hasn't been thinking outside the box when it comes to Latina women.
La La Anthony
There are so many high-end body lotions. I just stick to cocoa butter. It works, I like how it smells, my skin is really dry and it helps with that.
La La Anthony
There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.
My son is my best friend.
La La Anthony
There's a lot of jewelry in my bag. It's great because if a bracelet is bothering me or I want a midday change, I switch to another.
La La Anthony
There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.
La La Anthony
There's no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.
La La Anthony
There's not a single person who loves Nestle Crunch more than I do.
La La Anthony
There's nothing like Christmas in New York.
La La Anthony
There's something great about life when you can do something you enjoy.
La La Anthony
We moms are beautiful both with and without makeup, but I always love classic colors I can mix with anything.
La La Anthony
Whatever's meant to be, will be. I'm a firm believer in that and I'll make it work.
La La Anthony
When I go to these auditions, I feel like I have to prove myself 10 times over... acting is a challenge.
La La Anthony
When you're in this world, you don't get to pick and choose what you go through.
La La Anthony
When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.
La La Anthony
When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.
La La Anthony
When you're independent, you're with somebody because you want to be there not because you feel like you have to be there.
La La Anthony
When your love for your kid is at the center of everything, you can't go wrong.
La La Anthony
Whenever I do Zoom teeth whitening my teeth zing
so bad. They're so sensitive. But I just
put this on my toothbrush with water and scrub hard. It doesn't taste like anything and it works!
La La Anthony
You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.
La La Anthony
You definitely have to find your passion in life, and then put together a plan to figure out a way to fulfill that.
La La Anthony
You dictate how people will treat you by how you treat yourself.
La La Anthony
Your love for your kid being at the center of everything, you can't go wrong.
La La Anthony
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the
oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.
Susan B. Anthony
Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If,
when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You
had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new
law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
Susan B. Anthony
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring
about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860).
Susan B. Anthony
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
Susan B. Anthony
Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to
the ballot; for how can the consent of the governed
be given if the right to vote be denied?
Susan B. Anthony
I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants
them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. Anthony
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled
by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Susan B. Anthony
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
Susan B. Anthony
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old
Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
Susan B. Anthony
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as
happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would
feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not
be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
Susan B. Anthony
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.
Susan B. Anthony
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied
the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
Susan B. Anthony
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to
give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
Susan B. Anthony
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. Anthony
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Susan B. Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over
herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
Susan B. Anthony
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Susan B. Anthony
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Susan B. Anthony
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. Anthony
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Susan B. Anthony
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony
The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
Susan B. Anthony
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike
propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
Susan B. Anthony
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
Susan B. Anthony
The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is
sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
Susan B. Anthony
The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation
of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
Susan B. Anthony
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Susan B. Anthony
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Susan B. Anthony
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Susan B. Anthony
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. Anthony
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
Susan B. Anthony
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized,
no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
Susan B. Anthony
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
Susan B. Anthony
Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
Susan B. Anthony
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so
until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Susan B. Anthony
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
Susan B. Anthony
Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
Susan B. Anthony
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Susan B. Anthony
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
David Antin
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
David Antin
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
David Antin
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
David Antin
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
David Antin
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than
to Henry James.
David Antin
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
David Antin
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley
were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
David Antin
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
David Antin
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
David Antin
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
David Antin
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
David Antin
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
David Antin
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking
of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
David Antin
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
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
David Antin
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying
to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
David Antin
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
David Antin
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
David Antin
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
David Antin
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
David Antin
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
David Antin
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
David Antin
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
David Antin
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
David Antin
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their
memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
David Antin
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
David Antin
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
David Antin
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
David Antin
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
David Antin
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
David Antin
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency,
so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
David Antin
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.
David Antin
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or
for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
David Antin
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
David Antin
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
Allegedly said on her way to the guillotine, reflecting her composure in the face of death.
Marie Antoinette
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. Monsieur, I beg your pardon.
Marie Antoinette
I have begun the History of England
by Mr. Hume. It
seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.
Marie Antoinette
I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all
her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.
Marie Antoinette
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
Allegedly describing her approach to dealing with the intrigues of court life.
Marie Antoinette
I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.
Marie Antoinette
I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.
Marie Antoinette
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you
deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Spoken on the day of her execution, October 16, 1793.
Marie Antoinette
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed
for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.
Marie Antoinette
It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.
Marie Antoinette
It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so
quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.
Marie Antoinette
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day
of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.
Marie Antoinette
Let them eat cake.
Attribution questionable.
Marie Antoinette
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The
king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid
that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.
Marie Antoinette
My God, protect us, we are too young to reign.
Allegedly said upon her marriage to Louis XVI,
reflecting her fears and doubts about her suitability as queen.
Marie Antoinette
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and she
judges me too harshly. But she is my mother, who loves me dearly; and when she speaks, I can only bow my head.
Marie Antoinette
My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.
You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the
misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.
Marie Antoinette
No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.
Marie Antoinette
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette
Nothing tastes.
Allegedly said in her later years while imprisoned, expressing her disinterest in food after losing her children and her position.
Marie Antoinette
Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it.
Spoken to her executioner after accidentally stepping on his foot as she ascended the scaffold.
Marie Antoinette
The king and the dauphin both like to see me on horseback. I only say this because all the world perceives
it, and especially while we were absent from Versailles, they were delighted to see me in my riding habit.
Marie Antoinette
The king is full of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his weakness
for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is possible to conceive.
Marie Antoinette
The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad
neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.
Marie Antoinette
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette
We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though
very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of
the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us.
Marie Antoinette
You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.
Marie Antoinette
Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I
will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.
Marie Antoinette
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Rudolph Valentino
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Minna Antrim
A fool hath no dialogue within himself; the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
Minna Antrim
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Minna Antrim
A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.
Minna Antrim
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
Minna Antrim
Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Minna Antrim
Integrity is the thing you do when no one is looking.
Minna Antrim
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Minna Antrim
It takes more than a wise man to keep a secret; it takes a fool.
Minna Antrim
Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.
Minna Antrim
Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.
Minna Antrim
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
Minna Antrim
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
Minna Antrim
She who boasts of lovers soon has none.
Minna Antrim
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet
lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Minna Antrim
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
Minna Antrim
The green-eyed monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
Minna Antrim
The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.
Minna Antrim
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with
pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Minna Antrim
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Minna Antrim
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
Minna Antrim
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
Minna Antrim
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Minna Antrim
Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.
Minna Antrim
Women detest a jealous man, but a woman will never believe him just timid.
Minna Antrim
Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Minna Antrim
Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.
Minna Antrim
Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.
George Appel
There's an app for that.
iPhone slogan.
Apple
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject
for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.
Edward Victor Appleton
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Victor Appleton
I may have been described as an atheist, but I am not. I do not subscribe to the conventional forms of religion, but I am no atheist.
Edward Victor Appleton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Victor Appleton
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
Edward Victor Appleton
The history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of
individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.
Edward Victor Appleton
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas Aquinas
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the
production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as
appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of
myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
Thomas Aquinas
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the person of one book.
Thomas Aquinas
Beware the man of a single book.
Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or
morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
Thomas Aquinas
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can
barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Thomas Aquinas
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much
more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go,
take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Thomas Aquinas
It is better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires
that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will
what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but
is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Thomas Aquinas
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Thomas Aquinas
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a
suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy; therefore, when he is deprived of true spiritual joys, it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Thomas Aquinas
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Thomas Aquinas
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Thomas Aquinas
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds.
Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more
abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
Thomas Aquinas
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A
thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge
of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Thomas Aquinas
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted
with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a
purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with
patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Thomas Aquinas
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Thomas Aquinas
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula - See
Pancho Villa
A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
Jeffrey Archer
Accept nothing, Believe no one, Challenge everything. It’s the only law I live by.
Jeffrey Archer
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
Jeffrey Archer
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I
would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
Jeffrey Archer
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make
mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
Jeffrey Archer
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Jeffrey Archer
Chatterers are a menace.
Jeffrey Archer
Exclusive will not be published in book format.
Jeffrey Archer
Fortune favours the brave.
Jeffrey Archer
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
Jeffrey Archer
I do greatly admire Australian artists.
Jeffrey Archer
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
Jeffrey Archer
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to
come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
Jeffrey Archer
I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking.
Jeffrey Archer
I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky
enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
Jeffrey Archer
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
Jeffrey Archer
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very
evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
Jeffrey Archer
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
Jeffrey Archer
I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government
when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
Jeffrey Archer
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Jeffrey Archer
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Jeffrey Archer
I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
Jeffrey Archer
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
Jeffrey Archer
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
Jeffrey Archer
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has
been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
Jeffrey Archer
I've loved art for more than 30 years.
Jeffrey Archer
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
Jeffrey Archer
Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail.
Jeffrey Archer
One lesson a man learns from Harvard Business School is that an executive is only as good as his health.
Jeffrey Archer
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Jeffrey Archer
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
Jeffrey Archer
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
Jeffrey Archer
Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
Jeffrey Archer
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
Jeffrey Archer
We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
Jeffrey Archer
We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is
just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.
Jeffrey Archer
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
Jeffrey Archer
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in
prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
Jeffrey Archer
What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
Jeffrey Archer
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
Jeffrey Archer
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I
covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
Jeffrey Archer
When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
Jeffrey Archer
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will
find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
Jeffrey Archer
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
Jeffrey Archer
Never sing in chorus, if you want to be heard.
J. F. Archibald
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government—and they aren't going to like it.
J. F. Archibald
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
Elizabeth Arden
Every woman has the right to be beautiful.
Elizabeth Arden
Hold fast to life and youth.
Elizabeth Arden
I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.
Elizabeth Arden
I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head, and rear end.
Elizabeth Arden
I only want people around me who can do the impossible.
Elizabeth Arden
I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.
Elizabeth Arden
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.
Elizabeth Arden
Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.
Elizabeth Arden
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
Elizabeth Arden
There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
Elizabeth Arden
To achieve beauty, a woman must first achieve health.
Elizabeth Arden
To be beautiful is the birthright of every woman.
Elizabeth Arden
You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.
Elizabeth Arden
Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.
Sherry Argov
Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.
Sherry Argov
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.
Sherry Argov
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.
Sherry Argov
Bitch: A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion—be it a man or anyone else in her life.
Sherry Argov
Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.
Sherry Argov
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you
get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.
Sherry Argov
He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.
Sherry Argov
If you're 30 years old, you have your whole life ahead of you.
Sherry Argov
In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
Sherry Argov
Live by your own rules. Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else’s drum. Decide
how you want to be treated. Choose what you will or will not tolerate. Leave if you don’t get what you want.
Sherry Argov
Men control the world, but women control the men.
Sherry Argov
Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is no contact.
Sherry Argov
Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own.
There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
Sherry Argov
Men tend to fall in love when they feel like they are cherished or revered as the man
in the relationship.
Sherry Argov
Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.
Sherry Argov
Success in love isn't about looks, it's about attitude.
Sherry Argov
The most attractive quality of all is dignity.
Sherry Argov
The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she
likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: I like anything you like.
Sherry Argov
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
There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.
Sherry Argov
Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.
Sherry Argov
When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.
Sherry Argov
When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side.
Sherry Argov
Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.
Sherry Argov
You always want what you can't have.
Sherry Argov
Human beings hold two types of theories of action. There is the one that they espouse, which is usually expressed in the form of stated beliefs and
values. Then there is the theory that they actually use; this can only be inferred from observing their actions, that is, their actual behavior.
Chris Argyris
In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.
Chris Argyris
Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.
Chris Argyris
Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.
Chris Argyris
Learning can be defined as occurring under two conditions. First, learning occurs when an organisation achieves what it intended; that is, there
is a match between its design for action and the actual outcome. Second, learning occurs when a mismatch between intention and outcome is identified
and corrected; that is, a mismatch is turned into a match.... Single-loop learning occurs when matches are created, or when mismatches are corrected by
changing actions. Double-loop learning occurs when mismatches are corrected by first examining and altering the governing variables and then the actions.
Chris Argyris
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere problem-solving, so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment.
Chris Argyris
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
Chris Argyris
People get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and
confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.
Chris Argyris
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
Chris Argyris
Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
Chris Argyris
Ari - See
Aristotle Onassis
Margot Fonteyn de Arias - See
Margot Fonteyn
Aristo - See
Aristotle Onassis
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter,
in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Any one can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the
right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time
unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal
in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some
good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent
execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives—choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being
determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its
statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
Aristotle
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy,
they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far
as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator
of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.
Aristotle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion;
second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to
the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the
special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have
expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one
makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Aristotle
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
Aristotle
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence;
for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and
more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Aristotle
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
Aristotle
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself,
power and glory, or happiness.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily
tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
Aristotle
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
Aristotle
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it
cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
Aristotle
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are
tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
Aristotle
Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.
Aristotle
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble
sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in
the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some
deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to
refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed,
prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are
said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for
what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he
is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the
suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle
We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect
them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons
and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his
fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there
cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
A disability can be anything that you are insecure about, and I teach people that when challenges come your way, you
need to face them, you need to embrace these new norms and these challenges, and you need to defy them and conquer them.
Victoria Arlen
At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.
Victoria Arlen
Being competitive is in my nature. I actually think being competitive saved my life. It's given me the constant
drive to be better, and when I was in that hospital bed and that wheelchair, it made me want to get better.
Victoria Arlen
Each of us can provide a positive example to others in our lives, and that's powerful. When I visit those with difficult health
conditions, I do my best to provide them with positive motivation because I know I was so inspired by people who showed support for me.
Victoria Arlen
ESPN truly is a game changer and has the ability to unite the world through sports, which is something I'm incredibly passionate about.
Victoria Arlen
Every time I dance, it's a tremendous blessing, and I just can't forget that.
Victoria Arlen
Good Life
was my gold-medal song and is what I sing when I need to get
focused and keep calm. It also just makes me super happy, and I love jamming out.
Victoria Arlen
Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and
as soon as I was old enough, I joined a swim team. By 10, I was winning local events.
Victoria Arlen
Heroes in real life don't wear masks and capes. Sometimes they don't stand out at all. But
real heroes can save a life - or many lives - just by answering the call in their heart.
Victoria Arlen
I come from a family of go-getters.
Victoria Arlen
I grew up a swimmer. I didn't think I could swim without the use of my legs.
Victoria Arlen
I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.
Victoria Arlen
I have these big brown eyes, so ever since I was a baby, you could tell what I was feeling and thinking based on my eyes.
Victoria Arlen
I know from my experience as a swimmer that you put in the work and practice, and
come game day, your body is ready, and you just have to trust your training.
Victoria Arlen
I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.
Victoria Arlen
I love to smile, even through pain.
Victoria Arlen
I love to swim, and what I have been able to do - give people hope.
Victoria Arlen
I made it to the top five on Dancing with the Stars.
To me, that was just a tremendous accomplishment.
Victoria Arlen
I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded,
and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that
beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.
I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.
Victoria Arlen
I want the other Victorias out there, the people that are suffering or going through something, to keep fighting.
Victoria Arlen
I was bullied in high school. I would go through the hallways and be pointed at and laughed at because I was the new kid in a wheelchair.
Victoria Arlen
I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.
Victoria Arlen
I was told it couldn't be done. My dream was impossible. But on March 3, 2016, after spending 10 years in a
wheelchair paralyzed from the waist down, I took my first steps without assistance. That was no easy task.
Victoria Arlen
I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.
Victoria Arlen
I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.
Victoria Arlen
I will use my voice to change the world, spreading hope, spreading love, and spreading life, 'cause the world needs that. That's enough for me.
Victoria Arlen
I'm a firm believer that every morning brings a new opportunity for me to conquer the day.
Victoria Arlen
I'm an athlete, I'm a competitor, so whenever you have a loss, you feel it in your heart.
Victoria Arlen
I'm honored to be a part of the #ShowEm campaign because it recognizes the importance of who we are at our core and what drives us to become who we want to
be, no matter what obstacles we face. Jockey has given me a platform to show people that the impossible can be possible if you keep fighting and believing.
Victoria Arlen
If mornings aren't your thing right now, try making yourself do a happy dance after you get out of bed. It helps me!
Victoria Arlen
It started off with flu-like symptoms and pain; then, I started feeling really funny. In two weeks, I was
paralyzed from the waist down, and it spiraled down from there. Every ability I had was slowly slipping away.
Victoria Arlen
It's actually more work for me to not smile than to smile.
Victoria Arlen
It's been a reality check that my muscles are still really affected by my spinal
cord injury, but it's also been super empowering to see how much I'm capable of.
Victoria Arlen
It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different.
Victoria Arlen
It's such a tremendous honor to redefine what is possible and inspire people. I just want to do that as long as possible.
Victoria Arlen
Live life to the fullest no matter what.
Victoria Arlen
My hope is to be the first disabled swimmer on an able-bodied team at the Y Nationals.
Victoria Arlen
My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.
Victoria Arlen
Since my days get crazy, I am in love with almonds - you'll always find them in my bag!
Victoria Arlen
Swimming is still very much a part of me.
Victoria Arlen
Thank you
is never enough for me to say to my family.
Victoria Arlen
The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.
Victoria Arlen
The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.
Victoria Arlen
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.
Victoria Arlen
The traditional tango is really staccato, but with the Argentine tango, you have to be really sexy and saucy.
Victoria Arlen
There's always going to be something positive that can come out of any negative situation.
Victoria Arlen
There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.
Victoria Arlen
We all have challenges. We have to face them, embrace them, defy them, and conquer them.
Victoria Arlen
We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.
Victoria Arlen
When I was 10 years old, Dancing with the Stars
premiered, and I told my mom, I'm going to be on that show one day.
Victoria Arlen
When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause.
Victoria Arlen
When I was really sick, I loved watching Dancing With the Stars.
Victoria Arlen
When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.
Victoria Arlen
When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through
the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.
Victoria Arlen
While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.
Victoria Arlen
Who doesn't like to get dressed up and eat good food?
Victoria Arlen
Winning gold and three silver medals at the Paralympic games is something I'll never forget, but I knew deep down there was
still more work to do. I had to continue to redefine what was possible and get back everything that was taken away from me.
Victoria Arlen
You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can't really feel it or move it? Well,
that's what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.
Victoria Arlen
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
Lance Armstrong
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
Lance Armstrong
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
Lance Armstrong
Chasing records doesn’t keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
Lance Armstrong
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Lance Armstrong
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain.
Lance Armstrong
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
Lance Armstrong
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate
Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
Lance Armstrong
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
Lance Armstrong
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Lance Armstrong
I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
Lance Armstrong
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
Lance Armstrong
I never doped.
Lance Armstrong
I still don't get golf.
Lance Armstrong
I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and
going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
Lance Armstrong
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think
about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Lance Armstrong
If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
Lance Armstrong
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
Lance Armstrong
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take
on Tiger.
Lance Armstrong
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Lance Armstrong
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
Lance Armstrong
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment
have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
Lance Armstrong
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it
will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
Lance Armstrong
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: Enough is enough.
Lance Armstrong
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Lance Armstrong
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
Lance Armstrong
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle
in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
Neil Armstrong
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton,
the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Neil Armstrong
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
Neil Armstrong
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
Neil Armstrong
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Neil Armstrong
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
Neil Armstrong
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by
the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil Armstrong
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Neil Armstrong
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
Neil Armstrong
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are
at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
Neil Armstrong
If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
Neil Armstrong
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one
eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the
curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad
that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Neil Armstrong
People love conspiracy theories.
Neil Armstrong
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Neil Armstrong
Research is creating new knowledge.
Neil Armstrong
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Neil Armstrong
The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to
this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil Armstrong
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Neil Armstrong
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
Neil Armstrong
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
Neil Armstrong
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
Neil Armstrong
A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The
reeds and liliessilent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by;
Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly
called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned
him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor—and has died, a conquered man!
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see
them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!
Beer
George Arnold
Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
Good-by—because I love you.
This simple yet poignant line captures the bittersweet nature of love and parting.
George Arnold
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.
Poems Grave and Gay (1867)
George Arnold
I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
I let my summer days pass idly on.
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
Life for the living, and rest for the dead!
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter,
The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.
Poems Grave and Gay (1867)
George Arnold
O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.
October
George Arnold
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
While the phrasing resembles Shakespeare's, Arnold
often wrote on the theme of finding value in struggles, and this is commonly attributed to his sentiment.
George Arnold
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
The living need charity more than the dead.
The Jolly Old Pedagogue
George Arnold
The sky is bluer than the ocean, and I am more lost than the sky.
A reflective and melancholic line showcasing Arnold's romantic and contemplative style.
George Arnold
Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His
long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, Let
us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead.
Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
The Jolly Old Pedagogue
George Arnold
What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.
Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl: and Other Poems (1866)
George Arnold
A God, a God their
severance ruled! And bade betwixt their shores to be / The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.
To Marguerite: Continued
Expressing the isolation of individuals.
Matthew Arnold
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
Beneath all this he saw, and seeing, groaned and loathed, / The impotent revolt of life against life’s doom.
Reflects Arnold's themes of existential struggle and melancholy.
Matthew Arnold
Calm’s not life’s crown, though calm is well.
A meditation on the balance between peace and the vibrancy of life's struggles.
Matthew Arnold
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Culture and Anarchy
Summarizing his view on cultural development.
Matthew Arnold
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of
the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Matthew Arnold
For the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams, / So various, so beautiful, so new, / Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light.
Dover Beach
A poignant reflection on disillusionment.
Matthew Arnold
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the
outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
Matthew Arnold
He knows, he knows / That the world is a world of woes, / And that folly and sin / Play their game with the soul within.
A recurring theme in Arnold's work, highlighting human frailty and moral challenges.
Matthew Arnold
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
Matthew Arnold
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Matthew Arnold
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
Life is not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming.
This encapsulates Arnold’s belief in continuous self-improvement.
Matthew Arnold
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and
America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the
need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
The sea of faith / Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore / Lay like the folds
of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear / Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.
Dover Beach
Lamenting the decline of religious faith.
Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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 lot of guys are starting to get away from trying to jerk these heavy weights and throw all these heavy weights around.
Jake Arrieta
A lot of guys came together quickly as a group, as more than just teammates, as friends. Your family get to know each other, and you become really
close, and that's a big part of the team aspect is caring about your teammates off the field, getting to know their kids, their families, their wives.
Jake Arrieta
ACE
is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for Acting cures everything.
You
weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on
display to the opponent that gives the appearance of OK, this guy is locked in today,
whether you are or not?
Jake Arrieta
ACE stands for Acting cures everything.
You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day.
Jake Arrieta
As a kid, you put yourself in those positions. Bases loaded, two outs, you're at the plate.
That's kind of the way I envision it as a kid playing whiffle ball or whatever the case was.
Jake Arrieta
As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.
Jake Arrieta
As you get a little older, you understand what you need to do to be good, regardless of who likes it or
doesn't like it. It's my career. And at the end of the day, it's going to be how I think I can do it best.
Jake Arrieta
At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the
plate, then that's fine. If you have one that's slightly open, that's fine, too.
Jake Arrieta
At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
Jake Arrieta
At this point, I'm just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my
pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.
Jake Arrieta
Being in the same sentence as Bob Gibson, that's incredible.
Expressing admiration for being compared to the legendary pitcher Bob Gibson.
Jake Arrieta
Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.
Jake Arrieta
Dry deliveries. That helps when I get the ball back in my hand - like I never really stopped throwing. The goal for me is to increase arm strength.
Jake Arrieta
Early in my career, I wasn't good in the strike zone early. I was good in the strike zone late, which is not a good thing.
Jake Arrieta
Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we
able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?
Jake Arrieta
Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.
Jake Arrieta
Guys want to be compensated fairly.
Jake Arrieta
Hamstring flexibility and hip mobility for me are the two most important factors on the field.
Jake Arrieta
How many people can do what I do, anyways? A handful of guys?
Jake Arrieta
I care about the integrity of the game.
Jake Arrieta
I consider myself a really good racquetball player. I'm sure that I would get waxed by
some actually good racquetball players, but I consider myself a pretty versatile athlete.
Jake Arrieta
I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.
Jake Arrieta
I don't like to see any sucker punches. I do think, in the heat of battle, if you're
getting hit on the hip with 98, then you should be able to go out and see somebody.
Jake Arrieta
I don't think I've ever been as humbled as I have been in Pilates. It's incredible how much body
control and how much isolated strength you have to have to complete these movements successfully.
Jake Arrieta
I eat plants. I eat lean meat. I work out.
Jake Arrieta
I enjoyed my time in Baltimore. I really did. I learned so much.
Jake Arrieta
I expect to beat everybody I play. It's kind of that quiet confidence that I have inside that I try to present to the
opponent without getting too overboard. Because there are times when I seem composed, but inside I'm losing my mind.
Jake Arrieta
I feel, that I'm only going to get better.
Jake Arrieta
I had great teammates. Adam Jones took great care of me. Mike Gonzalez took good care of me.
Jake Arrieta
I had teammates like Chris Davis. Manny Machado was really young and such a good kid. Seeing his
development, it's ridiculous. He's going to get bigger. He's going to get stronger. He's going to get even better.
Jake Arrieta
I know the Cubs don't typically do six- or seven-year deals, but I think there are
obviously times when there should be exceptions. I think I've done pretty well here.
Jake Arrieta
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
I like my chances toe to toe with just about anybody.
Jake Arrieta
I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination
of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.
Jake Arrieta
I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.
Jake Arrieta
I repeat my delivery consistently. My balance is much improved. And the mental and physical
toughness Pilates requires to complete movements the correct way have directly helped me on the mound.
Jake Arrieta
I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.
Jake Arrieta
I think the average MLB career now is just a few years. The quote that has always resonated
with me is We're going to be former players a lot longer than we were current players.
Jake Arrieta
I think the beard plays a slight factor to my presence on the mound. It's kind of part of the
persona now. Everyone in Chicago embraced it, so I got to keep it. I can't ditch it now.
Jake Arrieta
I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's
where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.
Jake Arrieta
I try to start every day with some sort of vegetable and fruit juice before I eat any kind of solid food. Because
that really jump starts your body and digestive system with the high content of micronutrients that your body needs.
Jake Arrieta
I want to shoot an elk with a bow. Mind you, I've never hunted in my life. But I feel like if I'm
ever going to hunt, it's going to be with a bow. I just feel like a bow requires more skill.
Jake Arrieta
I was giving some of my teammates a hard time, saying I've got more pop than they do.
Jake Arrieta
I was in Baltimore in 2012 and 2013.
Jake Arrieta
I watch what I eat, and I train properly.
Jake Arrieta
I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.
Jake Arrieta
I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, my friends, my fans.
Jake Arrieta
I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.
Jake Arrieta
I'm extremely hairy. It pretty much connects from the top of my head to my toes with a nice upper body sweater/track jacket type of thing.
Jake Arrieta
I'm never trying to hurt or hit anybody.
Jake Arrieta
I'm not really into the statements kind of thing.
Jake Arrieta
I'm not saying I won't make a mistake throughout the game.
Jake Arrieta
I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.
Jake Arrieta
I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.
Candidly acknowledging his early career challenges despite being physically fit.
Jake Arrieta
I've been through a lot in my career, and the failure that I've gone through makes me really appreciate the moments of success much more.
Jake Arrieta
I've got some good movement on my sinking fastball, and I rely on that.
Jake Arrieta
I've had some incredible experiences with this organization. I owe a lot to this team and this
organization and the ownership. I don't want to see that time come to an end, my time as a Cub.
Jake Arrieta
I've heard players, and I'm talking about some of the best players in the league, question whether I've
taken steroids or not. Some of the things I hear are pretty funny, and some people are idiots, frankly.
Jake Arrieta
I've made it clear I like Chicago.
Jake Arrieta
I've never had anything to hide.
Jake Arrieta
If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.
Jake Arrieta
If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
Jake Arrieta
If two guys want to go see each other, let them be in the middle, let them throw some punches, then break it up.
Jake Arrieta
Immersing myself in the Wrigleyville area was special to me and my family.
Jake Arrieta
It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.
Jake Arrieta
It's about just staying in the moment.
Jake Arrieta
It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing.
That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.
Jake Arrieta
It's just a continuous process, trying to work through it, trying find that comfort zone
and go from there. That's kind of where I'm at. I feel pretty good about where I'm at.
Jake Arrieta
It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely different if you're able to
kind of work your way through that report, attack guys certain ways, use different sequences, and be effective with them.
Jake Arrieta
It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early
childhood. Learning to walk, learning to talk. Reaching out for you for the first hug, telling you they love you.
Jake Arrieta
Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they're there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.
Jake Arrieta
Just know, especially when they were infants and toddlers, the thought these two children
depend on us for everything in their lives 24/7. That's a pretty incredible responsibility.
Jake Arrieta
Just so many special moments that make you feel incredibly fortunate and grateful to be able to have healthy, beautiful kids.
And I'm sure the emotions will continue to change over time, and as I get older, I'll probably want to yell and scream at them.
Jake Arrieta
Look at all of the pitchers getting six- and seven-year deals at 30, 31, and 32. You see what's going on and the money
that's out there. You'd be a fool not to try to benefit from that, or at least try to get what you feel you're worth.
Jake Arrieta
My flexibility is probably my No. 1 asset. Obviously we need to have a strong shoulder, strong scapula, strong lats, and a durable elbow to
have longevity as a pitcher, but being mobile in the hips and flexible in the hamstrings takes so much pressure and stress off of my arm.
Jake Arrieta
On the road, we're hitting in the cages during our normal batting practice for our position players.
Jake Arrieta
Once I get completely right mechanically and with command, maybe I only use two or three pitches to get through seven innings.
Jake Arrieta
People asking my teammates, Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?
Honestly, hearing that
kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.
Jake Arrieta
People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.
Jake Arrieta
People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.
Jake Arrieta
Pilates has been around a long time but maybe was taboo in this sport. I think it's
only a matter of time before you see a reformer in every big league clubhouse.
Jake Arrieta
Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviously maturing as a player and a
teammate and as a person. Those are things that are necessary to achieve success in this game. There's no other way around it.
Jake Arrieta
Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.
Jake Arrieta
Sequencing is a really big factor in preparing for a team that you've faced several times. For me, at the end of the day, I feel like if I
execute, regardless if I were to use same sequencing as I have in the past against these guys, I still feel confident in my ability to have success.
Jake Arrieta
Sometimes, when I break my hands, I kind of go too far behind my body, and what
that will do, wherever my right arm's going to go, my left arm's going to go.
Jake Arrieta
Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.
Jake Arrieta
That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
Jake Arrieta
That's one the main reasons we live in Austin. The weather is so nice for the majority of the offseason, and it's easy for us to get out and
ride bikes and get on some trails, to walk together as a family. Sometimes I'll go out for a trail run. We just like to do things outdoors.
Jake Arrieta
That's why I got into Pilates: because I can reduce the stress and impact in my joints while
still being able to increase strength and flexibility, and it's going to pay dividends.
Jake Arrieta
That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed
pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays at a higher velocity.
Jake Arrieta
The back hair doesn't get all that long; it's just really thick. So if I don't keep it shaved once a week, it's a
problem, and it could take two hours. And my wife's got to do it, so it's her problem. I told her we just need to buy
a laser hair removal machine because it would take three or four years and probably 50 sessions to get rid of it.
Jake Arrieta
The contract stuff will work itself out. If we keep winning, those kinds of things all work themselves out in time.
Jake Arrieta
The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.
Jake Arrieta
The numbers are hard to control.
Jake Arrieta
The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.
Jake Arrieta
The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.
Jake Arrieta
There are so many things on Twitter, so many mentions, it's hard to get through all of them.
Jake Arrieta
There are still things I can do better.
Jake Arrieta
There were so many things in Baltimore not many people know about. I had struggles with my pitching coach. A lot of guys did.
Jake Arrieta
There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are
something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.
Jake Arrieta
There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.
Jake Arrieta
There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.
Jake Arrieta
There's so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and
allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that's how the talent is able to come out.
Jake Arrieta
Time flies really quickly. It feels like only a few months ago that I was traded over here and started my career as a Cub in 2013.
Jake Arrieta
Typically, being under the strike zone with the sinker isn't a big issue. I need to be a little bit higher with the
strike zone earlier in the count. If you miss under with one here and there when you're ahead, it's really not an issue.
Jake Arrieta
Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think
there's opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension's concerned.
Jake Arrieta
We know St. Louis is a great club. They have been for a long time.
Jake Arrieta
We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.
Jake Arrieta
What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.
Jake Arrieta
What I don't like to see is a lot of chirping and guys just talking crap to each other. If you got something wrong with a guy, go see him.
Jake Arrieta
When I do train heavy, it's typically one to two days a week, but the training I do just about on a daily basis is Pilates-based.
Jake Arrieta
When it comes up with my age, I'm like, let's just end the conversation there. That's irrelevant to me. I'll pitch until I'm 40.
Jake Arrieta
With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You
understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.
Jake Arrieta
You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.
Jake Arrieta
You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.
Jake Arrieta
You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game
plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.
Jake Arrieta
You rarely see any blowout games.
Jake Arrieta
You really want to try to continue to pile up outs as often as you possibly can. Whether they get a hit or
not really doesn't affect the way you continue to approach that lineup, especially with a five-run lead.
Jake Arrieta
You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.
Jake Arrieta
You want to be the team that is on the field when the last out is made on the winning side.
That's obviously the holy grail in the game that I play, and that's what every player strives for.
Jake Arrieta
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Mary Kay Ash
Criticize the act, not the person.
Mary Kay Ash
Dare to risk public criticism.
Mary Kay Ash
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You
can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.
Mary Kay Ash
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Mary Kay Ash
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important.
Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash
Fake it till you make it.
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
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Mary Kay Ash
God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash
God first, family second, career third.
Mary Kay Ash
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true.
Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.
Mary Kay Ash
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Mary Kay Ash
Make every day count. Make every hour count. Make every minute count. And don't stop until you have exercised your full potential,
realizing your impossible dream and fulfilling your total destiny to become the person that you, and only you, are capable of being.
Mary Kay Ash
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.
Mary Kay Ash
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether
the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
People fall forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that
says, Make me feel important.
Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
Mary Kay Ash
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Mary Kay Ash
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Mary Kay Ash
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what
happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash
There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
Mary Kay Ash
We fall forward to succeed.
Mary Kay Ash
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't
have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay Ash
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Mary Kay Ash
Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that if you think you can, you can; and if you think you can't – you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should
never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,
nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a theory
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously
and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading.
He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing
heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -
but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say It's as plain as the nose on
your face.
But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
Isaac Asimov
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov
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
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
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and
knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka!
but That's funny...
Isaac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its
way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
To insult someone we call him bestial
. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human
might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have
met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
Margot Asquith
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Margot Asquith
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
Margot Asquith
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Margot Asquith
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this
day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
Margot Asquith
I do not say I was ever what I would call plain,
but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
Margot Asquith
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard
and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
Margot Asquith
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Margot Asquith
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source
of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Margot Asquith
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
Margot Asquith
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Margot Asquith
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness; the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage; and the fourth—the power of love.
Margot Asquith
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find.
Margot Asquith
There are some people that you cannot change; you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
Margot Asquith
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
Margot Asquith
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t
is silent, as in Harlow.
Margot Asquith
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
Am I dying, or is this my birthday?
Nancy Astor
I married beneath me. All women do.
Nancy Astor
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor
My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
Nancy Astor
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.
Nancy Astor
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Nancy Astor
A lot of people would like to see me in England. This is not necessarily the league
that attracts me the most, though. It would allow me to develop further, though.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Achieving Champions League football is the minimum requirement and always the most
important thing for [Dortmund Borussia] club. Beyond that, we want to win a trophy.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
As far as I know, Mr. Watzke has not said he would sell me if somebody offered 100m. He has emphasised
that the club would like to continue working with me. The club is just greedy for success - and so am I.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Dortmund is a fantastic club, critical for my career. But my Spanish grandfather on
my mother's side always wished that I play in Spain. And if, then at Real Madrid.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I am feeling very well here and want to achieve much more with BVB and win titles. I
am here and nowhere else: not at Arsenal, not at Barcelona, and not on the moon.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I am grateful to everybody: the training staff, my fellow players, and everybody who works for the club. It is just great.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I am really pleased to sign permanently with St. Etienne. It was my ambition in coming to St. Etienne. This is one of the finest passages of my young career.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I believe, and, when I pray, I ask to become one of the best attackers on the planet.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I focus only on the work with my team-mates with Dortmund and Gabon.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I have no dream. I shall no longer speak of Madrid. They don't want me. This is not a problem. I move forward; I am well in Dortmund.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I have progressed. I have worked a lot in front of goal, trying to keep a cool head, trying not to force things.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I have said in the past that I dream of playing in Spain, but Dortmund has become my second home. I love this club, its fans, and this city.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I have to say, when you are out for a few weeks you realise how good it is to be back on the pitch.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I hope Dortmund can reach the final of the Champions League again... why not?
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I know many people said I couldn't go to China because it would be a step
backwards in football terms, but I think anyone would at least consider such an offer.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I like staying here very much, as I feel at home in Dortmund.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I really like the Spanish league and find it attractive.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my
career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I want to thank my team mates in the national team and also at Dortmund. It is their work that helps me to score goals.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I was never tempted by the Premier League. It's simply a personal opinion.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I will choose England before any other destination. My dream has always been to play in one of the top two leagues
in the world. Newcastle is a good club, and St James's Park is a monumental stadium where there is passionate fans.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I'll never go to Bavaria, that's for sure. That would be too hard for the Dortmund fans. No matter what they offer me, I would say no. Absolutely no way.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I'm like this. When I feel something, I want to do something, I do it - I just do it.
So I'm like this also in my life: if I want to wear some crazy clothes, I put it on.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I've played for St. Etienne, and the fans told me I should never go to Lyon. So I didn't go.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
If I didn't believe that I could win titles with Dortmund, then I wouldn't be here.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
If I want to do something like the Batman mask, I just do it. I was like this all the time; I think nobody can change me.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
If Real want me, they will call me one day, and, if not, no problem. I live my life and am optimistic about the future.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
If Spurs ever came back in me for me, I'd say no.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
In football, nothing lasts forever.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
In football you never know, but generally speaking, I feel more than comfortable here [in Borussia Dortmund]. There's no place on earth I'd rather be.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
In France, sometimes, you have some players or coaches say, If we go there, and we come back with one point, it's okay.
Here? No chance of this!
Everybody wants to win. I think every team is playing to win matches, so the game is hard and fast, intensive. I really like the Bundesliga for that.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an
attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It's amazing - you know, you just look up, and you say, Wow, that's amazing.
It's 25,000 people only on one side, so of course you enjoy it. Every time
when you go on the pitch, it's just crazy. They know when we need some energy; they have a button, so it's perfect. But you feel it; you feel it, of course.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It's great to see my hard work paying off, even if it's not finished.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Klopp gave me strength of character and helped me progress. He's a charismatic person, and I have a lot of respect for this man.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Klopp helped me play my favourite position again - centre-forward.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Klopp would reproach me for not tracking back properly. I took things on board, and I listened to him. I worked hard in training; I stayed behind
after training. That's what helped me to shine in the Bundesliga because I scored quite a lot of goals despite some difficult games in the league.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Lewandowski is very complete. He can hold on to the ball and build play; he can dribble. He can score goals from anywhere. He is fast, strong in the air.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Lots of people think that the Premier League would be good for me, but my mum is Spanish, and I really have that dream to play over there.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Milan offered me something. I was very interested by the project. It did not happen for many reasons.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
My childhood dream? To play at Real Madrid. In 2014, before he died, I promised my grandfather who was from Avila,
110 kilometers from Madrid, that I would play there. It will be complicated, but it sits in a corner of my head.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Never would I switch to Bayern.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
No one can predict the future.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking
approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
People talk about me, and that's good, but a lot of it has been down to how my team-mates have supported me.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Real is the club of my heart, and I promised my grandfather that I would play there one day. I hope that it will happen.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Real Madrid? There is no agreement, but I promised my grandfather I would play there one day. Why wouldn't I want to
discover new things? As I've said several times, I'd like to play in Spain and have good weather for once in my life!
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Robert Lewandowski is a fantastic forward. He challenges me in every match with his performances and goals.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Samuel Eto'o I know well. We see each other often; we send each other messages, and we call each other. It's good.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The French league is clearly developing. It is really pleasing to see. Paris, for me,
is above everyone else in France. When they come for you, it is always attractive.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The interaction with Marco Reus is also very good. We understand each other very well, both on and off
the pitch. If we get along privately, then that affects things on the pitch. We're almost like brothers.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The most important thing is that I continue to improve.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The Torjagerkanone means a lot to me. It was a great effort - made by the whole team.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
There have been miraculous stories in the history of big football events all around the globe, with
host nations achieving fantastic results and even winning titles with the support of their fans.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
We had an agreement with Borussia that I could leave. It didn't happen. It is a disappointment. But I'm also happy to stay.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
When I was a kid, I watched Hugo Sanchez videos. The backflip I sometimes do when I score is actually an homage to him.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W. H. Auden
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he
has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act
of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual
exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden
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
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves
with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
W. H. Auden
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the
outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
W. H. Auden
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
W. H. Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden
Happy Birthday, Johnny,
Live beyond your income,
Travel for enjoyment,
Follow your own nose.
W. H. Auden
Healing,
Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
W. H. Auden
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
W. H. Auden
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is
good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
W. H. Auden
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
W. H. Auden
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be
unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself
doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and
will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,
considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith
is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
W. H. Auden
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
W. H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and
on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
W. H. Auden
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
W. H. Auden
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
W. H. Auden
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they
were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W. H. Auden
Now is the age of anxiety.
W. H. Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
W. H. Auden
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
W. H. Auden
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W. H. Auden
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or
money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye,
on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
W. H. Auden
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
W. H. Auden
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
W. H. Auden
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
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
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. Auden
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Augustine
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but
being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Augustine
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not
think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Augustine
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Augustine
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Augustine
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Augustine
Custom is second nature.
Augustine
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first
about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Augustine
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Augustine
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Augustine
For You made us for Yourself,
and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in You.
Augustine
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine
God is best known in not knowing him.
Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Augustine
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Augustine
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
Augustine
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Augustine
He who labours, prays.
Augustine
Hear the other side.
Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this
virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Augustine
I have read in Plato and
Cicero sayings that are wise and very
beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Augustine
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Augustine
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
Augustine
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the
other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Augustine
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Augustine
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Augustine
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Augustine
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Augustine
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at
the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Augustine
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out
what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Augustine
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart.
Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Augustine
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Augustine
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for
some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Augustine
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Augustine
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the
accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Augustine
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also
be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Augustine
The greatest evil is physical pain.
Augustine
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Augustine
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call Christian
the true religion which existed before.
Augustine
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
Augustine
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Augustine
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Augustine
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Augustine
This world's a bubble.
Augustine
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and
our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Augustine
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to
seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.
Augustine
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Augustine
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Augustine
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Augustine
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Augustine
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Augustine
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has
eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Augustine
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and
sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Augustine
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth,
O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Augustine
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Augustine
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
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Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Vespasianus Augustus - See
Vespasian
Perhaps I am too small to be regarded. My friendship however is strong; my friendship I do not forget.
A Short Narration, 1791.
Aupaumut
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Attribution questionable.
Aupaumut
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.
Aupaumut
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower
than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Marcus Aurelius
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond
itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
Be content to seem what you really are.
Marcus Aurelius
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but
if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us
their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus Aurelius
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied
with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
Marcus Aurelius
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter:
not, This is a misfortune
but To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Marcus Aurelius
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men,
but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as
often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Marcus Aurelius
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of
the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Marcus Aurelius
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing
brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus Aurelius
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a
vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who
can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and
girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
Emma
Jane Austen
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her
cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.
Letter to her niece Fanny Knight, November 18, 1814.
Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
Every savage can dance.
Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to
one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations,
that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
Emma
Jane Austen
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Jane Austen
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people
throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these
pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Jane Austen
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so
much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Jane Austen
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Jane Austen
Nothing, but death.
Jane Austen
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Jane Austen
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
Jane Austen
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom
can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Emma
Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Emma
Jane Austen
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
Jane Austen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking
plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without
being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Emma
Jane Austen
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially
good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
Jane Austen
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason
to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it.
Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever.
Persuasion
Jane Austen
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.
Steve Austin
A lot of people say, What set the Attitude Era up?
or, What started the Attitude Era?
To me - and I was allegedly the leader of it - sports
entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don't know.
Steve Austin
And that's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!
Signature closing line, often delivered after confrontations or promos.
Steve Austin
Any time you go live with Vince McMahon it's going to be a very interesting experience.
Steve Austin
As much as I love the business and I love my fans, I don't want to be at every WrestleMania.
Steve Austin
Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass!
From his 1996 King of the Ring victory speech, inspired by John 3:16 and aimed at Jake The Snake
Roberts.
Steve Austin
Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.
Steve Austin
Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.
Steve Austin
Diamond Dallas Page is one of my best friends.
Steve Austin
Don't look forward to me putting on the trunks and knee braces to get back in the ring and stomp a mudhole in somebody and walking it dry.
Steve Austin
Driving a forklift is kind of like riding a bicycle. You've either got forklift skills or you don't, and I can remove somebody's molars with a forklift.
Humorously describing his proficiency with a forklift.
Steve Austin
DTA: Don’t Trust Anybody.
A mantra reflecting his anti-authority, lone-wolf persona.
Steve Austin
Earl Hebner should definitely be in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Steve Austin
Everyone can have a rough day at the office, as they say. I've had those myself many times when the bell rings.
Steve Austin
Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough
industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.
Steve Austin
Everything I've done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I not been able to achieve what I did, I guarantee you... my high school
jobs were always working in the highway department - driving dump trucks, patching up roads, digging ditches, driving a forklift.
Steve Austin
Give me a hell yeah!
A crowd-prompting chant during his entrances or promos.
Steve Austin
I actually have a pretty good sense of humor.
Steve Austin
I am not a coward.
Steve Austin
I appreciate everyone that had supported my career.
Steve Austin
I didn't do choreographed fighting for a living. I was a professional wrestler for 15 years; there's a big difference.
Steve Austin
I don't have the talent of Daniel Day-Lewis. I'm Steve Austin,
so when I get to hang out and be who I am, and I live on set, it's like a paid vacation, man.
Steve Austin
I don't know if a pro wrestling career prepares you for Hollywood. When you get out there, and you're in an arena for 20,000 people
or 90,000 people, it's a lot different than being on a quiet set with 100 people, so I think you get used to dealing with cameras.
Steve Austin
I don't live as Stone Cold.
I live as Steve Austin. I was
Stone Cold
Steve Austin back in 2003, then I rode off into the sunset.
Steve Austin
I don't look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I'm not trying to make any
political statement with the movies I make. I'm trying to have a good time. I'm trying to entertain people.
Steve Austin
I enjoy reality television.
Steve Austin
I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on
something you're not, so I'm me, and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.
Steve Austin
I go back to the old school days of that Attitude Era stuff. Everybody knows when I speak of the Attitude Era, my
favorite stuff is of the mid-'80s, all that NWA stuff, the World Class stuff, the stuff that Bill Watts was doing.
Steve Austin
I got out of the business when I got out. The hunger was out of my system.
Steve Austin
I got pile drived in '96 or '97 and was a quadriplegic for about a minute and a half. I couldn't move anything. It was in the Meadowlands at a pay per view with
a million or two people watching, and I couldn't move. That cost me a surgery, but I healed pretty quickly, so that was probably my worst day at the office.
Steve Austin
I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.
Steve Austin
I have so many great memories of the wrestling business. I've worked real hard to get to the top,
and how many flukes and breaks to have happened that had allowed me to have the success that I did.
Steve Austin
I like pure pro-wrestling, when it's serious in its orientation and presentation - like it's a legit sport with Jim Ross calling the action.
Steve Austin
I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you're a performer, and you're used to being the mac daddy, the
main cat, and all of a sudden you're not that guy anymore, it's kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.
Steve Austin
I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.
Steve Austin
I love the business of pro wrestling, and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.
Steve Austin
I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.
Steve Austin
I no longer need my power tie because I always have my power finger.
In reference to his rebellious persona and frequent use of the middle finger gesture.
Steve Austin
I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.
Steve Austin
I really value my days down there in ECW in Philly.
Steve Austin
I respect Hulk Hogan because his career lasted some 30 odd years. I think I lasted about
15, but during my peak years, I took the business to a height it never seen before.
Steve Austin
I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.
Steve Austin
I think The Condemned
has a great story. It's a lot more than a mindless action flick.
Steve Austin
I think they've got to give Kevin Owens a run with the belt. He's a veteran, and he's really clicking on the mic, and the kid is super talented.
Steve Austin
I used to love Andre The Giant. I could sit around all day and listen to Andre stories. He was such a wonderful,
unique guy who everyone loved being around. The thing about Andre, he just had this magical mystique about him.
Steve Austin
I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock
anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.
Steve Austin
I was a Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes guy. Ric Flair continues to be my favorite wrestler of all
time. I loved Harley Race and Nick Bockwinkel and all of those guys, but I'm a big Flair guy.
Steve Austin
I wear decent shades, but if I lose them, I'll go right to the store and get cheap ones because my eyes are that sensitive.
Steve Austin
I would consider doing something along the lines of Tough Enough
because that was my first
endeavor into reality television, and that is a world I know and love, and that's why I was on that show.
Steve Austin
I'll open up a can of whoop-ass on you!
A threat often used by Austin to intimidate his opponents.
Steve Austin
I'll tell you what, the chemistry that I had with Bret Hitman
Hart in the
ring, and the respect and the trust we had for each other, was unbelievable.
Steve Austin
I'm for same-sex marriage.
Steve Austin
I'm glad about The Curtain Call
now, but I remember being very confused watching it all go down because I
was right there behind the curtain watching it all, and I couldn't believe these guys were breaking kayfabe.
Steve Austin
I'm honest and tell it like it is. I've been around the horn a few times and learned valuable lessons from
screwing up a bit. So, if I can pass off advice or make someone smile on the way to work, I'm for it.
Steve Austin
I'm not addicted to wrestling anymore. For a long time, I was.
Steve Austin
I'm not wrestling anymore. I'm out of that part of my career.
Steve Austin
I'm pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never
bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I've earned the right to be critical.
Steve Austin
I'm really proud of Broken Skull Challenge.
Steve Austin
I'm telling you, there have been some great finishers in the world of pro wrestling or sports
entertainment. Whatever you want to call it. Man, I enjoyed the Iron Claw back in the day. I believed it was real.
Steve Austin
I've been in the entertainment industry - wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if
you have thin skin, you're going to have a tough time in this town, but I've got thick skin.
Steve Austin
I've got a chance to host a show called Redneck Island
on CMT. I love doing that show.
Steve Austin
If it's the morning, and I had a late night, the worst thing in the world is a bright light.
Steve Austin
If you put an s
in front of Hitman,
you've had my exact opinion of Bret Hart.
A play on words expressing his disdain for fellow wrestler Bret Hitman
Hart.
Steve Austin
In The Condemned,
if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.
Steve Austin
In the ring, if someone hits you too hard, you can only take so many of those, and you have to send back a receipt, meaning
Hey, settle down.
If a guy has a bad night at the office and catches you in the chin, you pop him so he knows what's going on.
Steve Austin
In the wrestling world, you had WWE, WCW, and smaller promotions that were like the
independents. I look at it as craft beer being the independent beer makers. It's the indie scene.
Steve Austin
It goes - for me - WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam. The big three.
Steve Austin
It's like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you're gonna get
a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you're that guy, boy, it's pressure.
Steve Austin
John Cena has done well for himself.
Steve Austin
Man, I had a good time working on Grown Ups 2.
First of all, when I read the
script, it is hands-down the funniest script I've ever read. It's laugh-out-loud funny.
Steve Austin
Man, it was a great ride back in the day. Obviously, I started out in WCW, and I
was a good mechanic back in the day. Got fired from that gig, made a turn for ECW.
Steve Austin
My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.
Steve Austin
My favoirte wrestler is Nature Boy
Ric Flair.
Steve Austin
My name is Stone Cold Steve Austin.
I am the World Wrestling Federation Champ. And I can't be stopped!
A declaration of his dominance in the wrestling world.
Steve Austin
My run cannot be touched. If you want to talk about longevity, you can speak the name Hogan. If you want to talk about
white-hot, selling tickets, and taking the business to a height it's never been - and, with a hell of a supporting cast, I might
add - you're talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Steve Austin
Oh hell yeah!
A celebratory or defiant exclamation, often after hitting a Stunner.
Steve Austin
On Redneck Island,
a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines
going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination.
Steve Austin
Once I came up with the Stone Cold
thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a
hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.
Steve Austin
q>Paul Heyman works with Brock. The magic works between Brock and Paul because of their dynamic and their chemistry.
Steve Austin
People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports
entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their
disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.
Steve Austin
Probably the greatest match in my career, and really put me on the match as a main event guy and paved the
way for what I was to become, was Wrestlemania 13, with the one and only, Bret The Hitman
Hart.
Steve Austin
Save your money, pay your taxes, it doesn't last forever...
Austin advising others on financial prudence.
Steve Austin
Say the average arena is 20,000 people. You're in the very center of that arena, and you're playing to the worst seat in
the house up there. So everything is very big, very large. It's like a very violent form of Broadway in a 20x20 ring.
Steve Austin
Shoot, man, I loved being a damn heel. Something about that, just going out there and being the most despicable person you could ever
be, was a real turn-on for me. And I grew up a real shy kid in south Texas, and it was something for me to lean on and have fun with.
Steve Austin
Short people, tall people, people with glasses, the bottom line is son, I'll whoop all their asses.
Emphasizing his readiness to take on anyone, regardless of their appearance.
Steve Austin
That final match I had at WrestleMania with The Rock was my last match.
Steve Austin
The Rock is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. So give the guy his due.
Steve Austin
The thing about the Broken Skull Challenge
is that there's really nothing else like it on television.
Steve Austin
The thing that's so tough about Broken Skull Challenge
is you're going head-to-head with
another human being who may or may not be stronger than you and may or may not want it more than you.
Steve Austin
There's no reason to go back in the ring and prove anything.
Steve Austin
There's so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to
keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That's about it. I enjoy what I do. I'll stay busy. I've been lucky.
Steve Austin
They made a three-hour Raw,
but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.
Steve Austin
Vince McMahon is a workaholic; he sleeps 4 hours a night. The last thing that you want to tell the old man is that you are burned out - you need a break.
Steve Austin
We didn't roll credits after Monday Night Raw.
You know, it didn't
say, Stone Cold Steve Austin played
by Steve Austin,
so all of a sudden
people think that's who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.
Steve Austin
What?
A taunting interruption popularized in the early 2000s, where he’d mock opponents by demanding they repeat themselves.
Steve Austin
When I came to WWE back in the day, I'd been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very
frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.
Steve Austin
When I got into professional wrestling, I started, and I starved for two years, and I finally got some
breaks. And then I got the biggest break, and I made the most of it and took wresting to its highest level ever.
Steve Austin
When I see things through my eyes, I don't want to ever just be really negative towards someone's performance. There are many ways to skin
a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they're doing different things than I would have done, but I don't ever want to be too critical.
Steve Austin
When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone
Cold Steve Austin, pretty
much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.
Steve Austin
When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like,
Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?
I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.
Steve Austin
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
When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently.
Steve Austin
When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's
definitely a part of my personality.
Steve Austin
When you wrestle for 15 years, you don't want to go back to driving that forklift.
Steve Austin
With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two
factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war.
Steve Austin
Wrestling is a very serious subject for me.
Steve Austin
WWE dropped the ball with Tough Enough.
Steve Austin
You know how much money I could have made playing professional football as a tight end? But I can't jump, and I can't run fast. That was my problem.
Steve Austin
You want mercy? Take your ass to church!
Austin's way of telling opponents not to expect leniency from him.
Steve Austin
You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.
Steve Austin
You cannot put Paul Heyman with Roman Reigns. People would know you're putting Paul Heyman with him because there is a problem.
Steve Austin
You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make
your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about.
Steve Austin
Competitive advantage is no longer sustainable over the long term; it’s about creating a series of temporary advantages.
Reflects his core thesis on hypercompetition, where static advantages are replaced by dynamic strategies.
Richard D'Aveni
From microchips to corn chips, software to soft drinks, and packaged goods to package delivery services, executives have watched
the intensity and type of competition in their industries shift during the last few years. Industries have changed from slow moving,
stable oligopolies to environments, characterized by intense and rapid competitive moves, in which competitors strike quickly with
unexpected, unconventional means of competing. They now confront hypercompetitors
who continuously generate new competitive
advantages that destroy, make obsolete, or neutralize the industry leader’s advantages, leaving the industry in disequilibrium and disarray.
Waking up to the New Era of Hypercompetition
Richard D'Aveni
Hypercompetition is an environment of intense change, in which flexible, aggressive, innovative
competitors move into markets easily and rapidly, eroding the advantages of the large and established players.
Richard D'Aveni
In hypercompetitive environments, the key strategic goal is disruption, not sustainability.
Emphasizes the need for proactive disruption in rapidly changing markets.
Richard D'Aveni
Industrial 3-D printing is at a tipping point, about to go mainstream in a big way.
Richard D'Aveni
It has become clear from the rumblings and soul-searching in the field of competitive strategy that a revolution is brewing. Managers and
strategy researchers are discovering that existing models of strategy are nearly obsolete in the intensity of today's fast-paced competition.
Richard D'Aveni
Sustainable competitive advantage is dead.
A succinct summary of his argument against traditional long-term advantage in volatile markets.
Richard D'Aveni
The future belongs to those who can innovate faster than their competitors.
Highlights innovation speed as critical in hypercompetitive industries.
Richard D'Aveni
The only sustainable competitive advantage is the ability to disrupt the status quo.
Underscores the importance of continuous reinvention to stay ahead.
Richard D'Aveni
The pace of competition is now so rapid that traditional sources of competitive advantage can be eroded almost overnight.
Stresses the fragility of conventional advantages in fast-moving markets.
Richard D'Aveni
This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor, where people can sustain a competitive
advantage for very long. This is an age that calls for cunning, speed, and enterprise.
The Mavericks
Richard D'Aveni
Biologists have long attempted to analyze the phenomena of growth and reproduction of the cell in terms of enzyme reactions and genetic
alterations. But progress is slow in the absence of more precise knowledge of the properties of the substances responsible for these effects.
From Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty’s 1944 paper Studies on the Chemical Nature of the Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types.
Oswald Avery
If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic
acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical basis of which is as yet undetermined.
Oswald Avery
If we are right, and of course that’s not yet proven, then it means that nucleic acids are not merely structurally important
but functionally active substances in determining the biochemical activities and specific characteristics of cells.
Private correspondence (1943), reflecting on his team’s groundbreaking findings about DNA.
Oswald Avery
It’s lots of fun to blow bubbles,—but it’s wiser to prick them yourself before someone else tries to.
From a 1943 letter to his brother Roy, cautioning against overconfidence in unverified scientific claims.
Oswald Avery
The evidence presented supports the belief that a nucleic acid of the desoxyribose type is the fundamental unit of the transforming principle.
Conclusion of the 1944 paper, cautiously asserting DNA’s role in heredity (a revolutionary claim at the time).
Oswald Avery
The inducing substance, on the basis of its chemical and physical properties, appears to be a highly polymerized and viscous form of sodium
desoxyribonucleate. On the other hand, the Type m capsular substance, the synthesis of which is evoked by this transforming agent, consists chiefly of
a non-nitrogenous polysaccharide constituted of glucose-glucuronic acid units linked in glycosidic union. The presence of the newly formed capsule
containing this type-specific polysaccharide confers on the transformed cells all the distinguishing characteristics of Pneumococcus Type III. Thus, it is
evident that the inducing substance and the substance produced in turn are chemically distinct and biologically specific in their action and that both are
requisite in determining the type of specificity of the cell of which they form a part. The experimental data presented in this paper strongly suggest that
nucleic acids, at least those of the desoxyribose type, possess different specificities as evidenced by the selective action of the transforming principle.
Oswald Avery
This [DNA] substance is highly reactive and in the pure state is capable of inducing unencapsulated cells to produce a capsular polysaccharide.
Explanation of the transformative power of DNA in his 1944 paper.
Oswald Avery
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
Oswald Avery
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or
when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
Alan Ayckbourn
A play is not a flat thing on a page; it’s a three-dimensional event.
From interviews about his approach to theater, emphasizing the importance of live performance over text.
Alan Ayckbourn
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Alan Ayckbourn
Comedy is tragedy interrupted.
A recurring theme in his discussions of humor, reflecting his belief in the thin line between laughter and pain.
Alan Ayckbourn
Directing is like being a chef: you assemble the ingredients, but ultimately, it’s the actors who have to make the meal.
On his dual role as playwright and director, quoted in The Guardian (2009).
Alan Ayckbourn
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Alan Ayckbourn
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
Alan Ayckbourn
I write plays because I love the theatre. It’s as simple as that.
From a 2018 interview with The Stage, discussing his lifelong passion for theater.
Alan Ayckbourn
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
Alan Ayckbourn
If you want to write, you have to write. It’s no good waiting for the muse. She’s probably off having a coffee with someone else.
Advice to aspiring writers, cited in his masterclass talks on playwriting.
Alan Ayckbourn
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
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
Alan Ayckbourn
Theatre is the most immediate of all the arts. It’s happening right there in front of you, and if it goes wrong, it goes wrong in real time.
From a BBC Radio 4 interview (2012), highlighting the live, unpredictable nature of theater.
Alan Ayckbourn
There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
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
Writing a play is like building a house. If the structure’s wrong, it doesn’t matter how nice the curtains are.
On the importance of dramatic structure, from The Craft of Playwriting (2000).
Alan Ayckbourn
You don’t need to be cruel to be funny. Cruelty is the easiest form of humor—and the laziest.
Critiquing mean-spirited comedy in a lecture at the National Theatre (2015).
Alan Ayckbourn