Quotes and Sayings about St
"Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Time, Right)
"There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Life, Want)
"I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Style)
"I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle."
- Aaliyah
"I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Work, Forget, Fun, Will)
"We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Committee, Nothing, Problems)
"I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?"
- Willie Aames
(Related: Death, People, Christ, Teaching, Wonder)
"I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Children)
"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Christianity, Hollywood)
"I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Hope, Christ, Thinking)
"I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Love, Time, God, People, Bible, Study, Years)
"I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them."
- Willie Aames
(Related: People, Christ, Hurt, Kids, Will)
"I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Strength, Christ, Kids, Want)
"I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me."
- Willie Aames
(Related: God, People, Day, Now, Saying)
"God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing."
- Willie Aames
(Related: God, Heart, Building, Children, Patience)
"It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you."
- Willie Aames
(Related: People)
"My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Celebrity, Now)
"They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Food, Wife, Heart, Daughter, Fear, Day, Eating)
"This is an exact replica of my chest."
- Willie Aames
"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Family, Life)
"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Home, Baseball, Fans, Games, Play)
"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Life, Ability, Wonder)
"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Time, Career, Past)
"Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Successful, Being, Execution)
"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Work, Play, Right)
"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."
- Frank Abagnale
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
- Nicola Abbagnano
(Related: Fallibility, Logic, Reason)
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
- Abu Abbas
(Related: War, Mistakes, Remorse)
"We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals."
- Abu Abbas
(Related: War, Thought, Goals)
"We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Vision, Ending, Occupation, President, Solution, State)
"We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Law, State)
"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Earth, State)
"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Peace, Israel, Security, Want)
"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Country, State)
"The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Dreams, Action, Moods, Motive, Study)
"True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Science)
"As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: End, Influence, Man, Needs, Population)
"I have started that which the country will not willingly let die."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Country, Will)
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Teamwork, Dumb, Man, Pretty, Stupidity)
"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Coffee, Culture, First)
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Power)
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Clouds, Leading, May, Mountains)
"If the end does not justify the means - what can?"
- Edward Abbey
(Related: End)
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Government, Country)
"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Home, Men, War, Enemies, Fighting, Tragedy)
"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Darkness, Light, Study)
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Friend, Man)
"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Abortion, Right, State, Woman)
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Missionaries)
"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Science, Information, Today, Understanding)
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Society)
"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Style)
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: History, Love, Habit, Research, Support, Writing)
"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Ideas, Writers)
"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Universe, Words)
"One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia."
- Lynn Abbey
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Balance, Commitment, Sense, Writing)
"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Computers, History, Books, Past, Reading, Writing)
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Instinct, Writer)
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Editors, Feet, Open)
"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: God, Books, Free will, Sense, Surprises, Writers, Writing)
"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Writing)
"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Successful, First, Writer)
"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Magic, Theories)
"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Being, Fantasy, Writer)
"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
- Lynn Abbey
"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Ideas, Question, Questions, Trying)
"I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it."
- Berenice Abbott
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Past, Photography, Present)
"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is."
- Berenice Abbott
"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Challenge, First, Word)
"That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Europe, Tax, Stars, Today)
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Movies, Home, Television)
"Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: First, Now)
"Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Home, Love, Time, People, Help)
"Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Car, Life)
"The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Government, Truth, Difficulty, First)
"My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Country, Crime, London)
"Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Fear, Cause, Crime)
"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Government, Congress, Judgment)
"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Baby, Responsibility)
"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Age, Education, Argument, Children, Democracy, First, School)
"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Cause, Effect, Illness, Paranoia, Prison, Reason, Reform, School)
"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Past, Respect, Will)
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Experience, Life, Night, Talk)
"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Circumstances)
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Nothing)
"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Anger, Life, Control, Day, Paranoia)
"War is the science of destruction."
- John Abbott
(Related: Science, War, Destruction)
"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
- John Abbott
(Related: Being, Man, Questions)
"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."
- John Abbott
(Related: Ability, Culture, Man, May)
"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Man, Reason, Rest)
"The highest qualities of character... must be earned."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Character)
"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Virtue, Infinite, Possibilities, Vice)
"Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Earth, Isolation, Justice, Satisfaction, Violence)
"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Knowledge, Opportunity, Numbers)
"In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Change, Successful, Reform, Will)
"Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Artists, Jobs, Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love)
"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Trust, Faith, Perseverance)
"Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing."
- Paula Abdul
"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Job, Judges)
"You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Mind)
"I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Disney, Film)
"For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Family, Help, Will)
"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: People, Successful, Friend)
"I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Beginnings, Forget, Fun, Jobs, Will)
"Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Trade, Will)
"America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love, America, Innocence, Saying, Training)
"All you can do is the best you can do."
- Paula Abdul
"Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Positive, Criticism)
"I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: History, Rest)
"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Time, People, Basketball, Being, Court)
"My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Boston)
"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Choice, Evolution)
"In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Nature, Cheating, Human nature)
"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Road, Years)
"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Equality, Trying)
"My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Islam, Spiritual)
"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Negative, Actions, Students, Teachers)
"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Time, Winning, Difference, Losing, May, Right)
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: professionals)
"I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Mistakes)
"I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, Islam, Muslim, Americans, Being, Burden, Challenge, Race)
"I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Jazz)
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Americans)
"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: History, People, Idea)
"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Mind)
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, American, Loyalty)
"When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Fans, Ugly)
"The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Home, Attention, Play)
"Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?"
- King Abdullah II
(Related: Age, People, Humanity, Today)
"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
- Peter Abelard
(Related: Wisdom, Truth, Key, Question, Questioning)
"It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth."
- Peter Abelard
(Related: Truth)
"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Work, Mistakes, Needs, World)
"It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use."
- Sam Abell
"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Work, Ability, Unconscious)
"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Desire, Photography)
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
- Hal Abelson
(Related: Giants)
"If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Music, Consciousness)
"On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Opportunity)
"Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Time, Play)
"You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Music, Thought, Jazz, Play, Trying)
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Expression, First, Individuality, Restraint)
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Determination, Man)
"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry)
"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Experience, Ability, Destiny, Man, Unity)
"The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Interest, Nations, Value, World)
"The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: First, Literary)
"The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Style, Tradition)
"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing, State)
"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Art, Society, Poetry, Needs)
"An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Beauty, Poetry, Difficulty)
"Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Life, Poetry, Attitude)
"No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Art, Will, Word)
"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Work, Creation, Mind, Poets, Production)
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Society, Development, Repetition, Will)
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Land, State, Talking)
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Land, Ownership)
"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Land, Worth)
"Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Ideas, Land, Old)
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Control, First, Saying)
"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Land, Now, State)
"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Interest, Public)
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: Crime)
"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: Change, History)
"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: State)
"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: Men, Time, Christ, May, Will, Words)
"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Experience, Time)
"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People, America, Authority, Blame, states, United, World)
"Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Will)
"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Fashion, Iraq)
"In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Cause, Enemy, Words)
"We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Government, Quality, Present, Will)
"Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Military)
"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Security, Will)
"As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Network)
"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Leadership, Key)
"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People, Country, Future, Result, Violence, Will)
"Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Time, People, May, Talk)
"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Boss, Defeat, Defense, Nothing, Osama bin laden, Planning, states, United)
"I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People, Control, Iraq, Key, Military, Needs, Understanding)
"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Change, Business, Being, Day, Environment)
"Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle."
- Edmond About
(Related: Life, Marriage, Battle)
"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot."
- Edmond About
(Related: Men, Country, Information, Opinions, Question, states)
"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."
- Edmond About
(Related: Conversation, Danger, Name)
"There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Men, Women)
"I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it."
- F. Murray Abraham
"Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Choice, First, Kitchen, Painting)
"People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Power, People, Desire, Intellect, Want)
"I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Time)
"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, War, Idea, Israel, Pretty, Thinking, World)
"If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Men, Children, Fight, Kids, Strangers, Want)
"There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Thought, End)
"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Son, Act, First, Russia)
"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Music, Film, Literature, Words)
"Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Power, Man, Quiet, Sense)
"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Work)
"Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Actor, Want)
"I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Right)
"I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Work)
"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Home, Trust, Kids, President, Will)
"I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Beginning, President)
"As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Fact, Man, Old, Preparation)
"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
- Karl Abraham
(Related: Work)
"I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: Hearing, May, Sound)
"Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: American, Doubt, Foreign relations, Historians, Years)
"Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: America, Being)
"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dream, Magic)
"You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: History, People, Values, Culture, Illusion, Man)
"With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dreams, Poetry, Books, Consciousness, Self, Shakespeare, World)
"Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Harm, Mistakes, Regret, Sorrow, Will, Words)
"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Business)
"In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Man, Past, Years)
"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: History, Legal)
"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Hope, Will)
"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Circumstances, Protection)
"My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Music, Favorite, Jazz, Listening, Queen, Singing)
"I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Music, Computer, Fun)
"I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Listening, Right, Song, Voice)
"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Music, Hope, America, Body)
"I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Car, Fact)
"In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Time)
"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: Talk)
"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: Arguments, Court, Decisions, Pretty)
"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: People, Hope)
"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: People, Talking)
"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."
- Elliott Abrams
(Related: Idea)
"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Day, Defense, Effect, End, Law, Question)
"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Decision, Circumstances, First, Interest)
"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Winning, Battle, Chance, Law, State)
"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Court)
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Work, People, Police)
"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Books, Lawyers)
"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Books, Law, Sense)
"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Public)
"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Judges, Opponents, Question, Thinking)
"I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Cause, Clients, Duty, Loyalty)
"I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, Law, Results)
"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: America, First, Freedom, Law, Living, Memory, Press)
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, Thought, Court, Respect)
"I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Deals, Now, Problems, Years)
"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, First, Rights, Speech, Want)
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Law, Press, Public, Right, Years)
"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Information, Public, states)
"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, Perception, Doubt, Police, Public, Talk, Word)
"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, War, Post, Study, Vietnam, Washington)
"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: First, Rights, Preaching)
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Fun, Students)
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: People, Effect, Will)
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: History, Ideas, Leading, Spirits)
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Ability, Environment, Military, Sound, Tests, Voice)
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Humanity, Nothing)
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Work, Hard work, Reading)
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Survival, Humanity, Will)
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
(Related: Poor)
"While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it."
- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
(Related: Being, Country, Ethics, Needs)
"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Play)
"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Father, Sons)
"My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Boys, Friends)
"I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dress, Makeup, Sun)
"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dancing, Film)
"My first vocation was dance."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dance, First, Vocation)
"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Career)
"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Clothes, First)
"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Day)
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Film, Luck)
"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
(Related: Coffee, Identity, Meeting)
"We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room."
- Bella Abzug
"The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes."
- Bella Abzug
(Related: Job)
"All of the men on my staff can type."
- Bella Abzug
(Related: Men)
"The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened."
- Bella Abzug
(Related: Men)
"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Body, Cure, Forget)
"TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Nothing, Words)
"Politics makes estranged bedfellows."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Politics)
"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Money, Virtue, Career, First, Pleasure, Woman, Writer)
"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: People)
"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Politics, Courtship)
"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Women, Listening)
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Suffering, Worry)
"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Habit, Leaders)
"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Idea, Diversity)
"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: People)
"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Integrity, Tests)
"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Democracy, Years)
"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Art, Effort, Man, Order, Reality)
"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: People, Purpose, Journey, Leaders, World)
"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
(Related: President, State)
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: History, Thought, People, Enemies, Freedom)
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Time, Day, Future)
"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: First)
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Attention, Ego, Man, Public)
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
- Dean Acheson
"The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Mistake, Office)
"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
(Related: Art, Past, Present)
"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
(Related: Father, Example)
"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."
- Dean Acheson
"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Cooperation, Nations, United)
"It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Mistake)
"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Fiction, Literature, Writers)
"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Traveling)
"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Students)
"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Love, Society, Act)
"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Energy)
"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Now, Right)
"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Books)
"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship)
"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Right, Understanding)
"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Time, Jazz, Writing)
"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Idea, Voice)
"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Body, Students)
"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Men)
"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship, Media)
"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Fiction, First, Magic, Writing)
"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Voice)
"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Dreams, People, Writing)
"I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?"
- Kathy Acker
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Life, End, Want)
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Country, End, Lies, Mystery, Will)
"Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret."
- Diane Ackerman
"Success produces success, just as money produces money."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Money, Success)
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Love)
"I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Family, Thought, Decision, Congress, Debate)
"India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Power)
"Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: People, Pride)
"I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Christian, Church, Bible, Beliefs)
"I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely!'"
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Hair, Past)
"The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'"
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Christmas, Thinking)
"I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended."
- Jensen Ackles
"I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Old)
"I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: God, Wrong)
"I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Jokes, Sound)
"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Father, Actor, Job, Months, School, Theater)
"There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Humor, Belief, May, Sense, Wit)
"When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Friends, School)
"When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that."
- Jensen Ackles
"I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Time, First, Girls)
"What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Life, People, Acting, Meeting)
"Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue."
- Peter Ackroyd
(Related: Events, Killing, Will)
"The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time."
- Harold Acton
(Related: Time, Fiction)
"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
- John Acton
(Related: History, Suffering, Wrong)
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
- John Acton
(Related: Country, Security)
"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
- John Acton
(Related: Men)
"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
- John Acton
(Related: Government, Power, People, Authority, Choices, Democracy, Fate, Principles, Tradition)
"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."
- John Acton
(Related: Knowledge, Burden, Past)
"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."
- John Acton
(Related: Mother, Being, Constitution, Country, Democracy, English, Revolution, Opposition, Result, states, Traditions, United)
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
- John Acton
(Related: Authority, Custom, Duty, Influence, Liberty, Man, Opinion)
"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."
- John Acton
(Related: Time, Success, Action, Nations, Past, World)
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Society, Morality, Consequences, Evil, Man, Misfortune, Poor, Property, Right)
"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Content)
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Justice, Nothing, Publicity)
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
- Lord Acton
(Related: History, Soul, Burden, Memory)
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Money, Artist)
"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Nothing, Today)
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."
- Lord Acton
(Related: End, Liberty)
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Faith, Government, Profession, Public, Teaching)
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
- Lord Acton
(Related: History, Men, Power, Control)
"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Fool)
"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Authority, Country, Duty, Man, Right, Spirit, State)
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Politics, Power, Science, Experience, History, Knowledge, Action, Future, Gold, Past)
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Men, Error)
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Life, Past, Satisfaction)
"Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place."
- Roy Acuff
(Related: Trust, Worry)
"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."
- Roy Acuff
(Related: Defeat, Democrats)
"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them."
- John Adair
(Related: Leader, Blind)
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control."
- Red Adair
(Related: Control, Hurt, Smile, World)
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Chance, Diligence, Learning)
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Rest, World)
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Power)
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Life, Action, Man)
"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Women, Heroes)
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Mother, Thought, Knowledge, Daughters)
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Power, Grave, Man)
"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Experience, Appetite, Problems, Sound, Television)
"Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Life, Gold, Man)
"My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Day, Key, Public)
"I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Success, Importance, Mission, Press)
"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Power, Help, Rumor)
"I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster."
- Amy Adams
(Related: People, Acting, Holly)
"Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Time, Hair, Kids, Needs, Parents, Ruin, Saying)
"I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Quality, People, Forget, Pretty, Revenge)
"When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Nature, Time, Being, First, Hair, Personality)
"My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Work, Job)
"I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled."
- Amy Adams
(Related: People, Attitude, Positive, Attention)
"I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Happiness, Life, Family, Success, Awards, Friends)
"How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Trust, Work, Character, Writers)
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: God, Care, Mistakes, Relationships)
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Disappointment, Photography)
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: God)
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
- Ansel Adams
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People, Old, Walking, Windows, Years)
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Eye, Meaning, Word)
"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Love, Thought, Reality, Spirit)
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People)
"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Truth, Myths, World)
"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Possibilities)
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Space, Wonder)
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Men, Creation, Fight, Force, Originality, Spirit)
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Life, Spirit, Universe)
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Being, Sense)
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Art, Experience, Nature, History, Science, Man, Moods, Spirit, World)
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics, Practice, Profession)
"I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Music, Successful, Job, Play)
"Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down."
- Charles Adams
(Related: Expediency, Greed, Taxation, Taxes)
"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
- Charles Kendall Adams
(Related: Success, Greatness, Excellence)
"I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion."
- Don Adams
(Related: Wife, Name, Quick, Study)
"I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."
- Don Adams
(Related: School)
"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."
- Douglas Adams
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Thought, Possibility, Mind)
"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
(Related: Bizarre, Inexplicable, states, Theory, Universe, Will)
"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
- Douglas Adams
"Life is wasted on the living."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Life, Living)
"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
(Related: Conversation, Difficulty, Trees)
"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
(Related: May, Mind, Road, Space)
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Mistake, Problems)
"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Order)
"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
"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
(Related: Thought, Fact, Mind, Misleading, Obvious, Popular)
"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
(Related: People, Fact, Job, President, Want)
"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: End)
"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
(Related: Experience, Ability, Remarkable)
"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
(Related: Family, Possibility)
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Money, Integrity, Service, Sincerity)
"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Normality)
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Design, Mistake, People, Fools, Trying)
"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
(Related: History, Peace, Aggression, Nations, Nothing)
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Age, Life, Day, Man)
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Health, Time, Now)
"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Country, Trouble)
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Business, Christmas)
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Men, Women, People, Elections, Vote)
"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Fear, Medicine, Mind, Relaxation)
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Successful, Applause, Care, Encouragement, Famous, Man, May, Woman)
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Time, Waste)
"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: People, Freedom, Irish, Pursuit, Unity)
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Courage, Determination, Freedom, Struggle)
"Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Courage, Decisions, Future, Now, Past, Will)
"The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Change, Support)
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Agreement, Rights, London)
"The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Time, Agreement, First, Months)
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Battle, Day, Deals, Eyes, Rights, Human rights, Key, Open, Patience, Republican, Will)
"It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Change, Battle, Day, Want, Will)
"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Blind, Eye, Oppression, Past, Right, Struggle)
"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Leadership, Peace, Ability, Justice, Play, Popular)
"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Example, Republicans)
"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Change, Ending, Potential, Want)
"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
(Related: Life, Wealth, Infinite, Summer)
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"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
(Related: Faith, History, Wrong)
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Obstacles, Order)
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Politics, Practice)
"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Power, Energy, Facts)
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Politics, Facts)
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Simplicity)
"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 B. Adams
(Related: American, President, Sea)
"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 B. Adams
(Related: Trust, Purpose, Lies, Nothing, Press)
"The proper study of mankind is woman."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Mankind, Study, Woman)
"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Intelligence)
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Education, Facts, Ignorance, Nothing)
"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Genius)
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Years)
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Power, Friend)
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Absence, Liberty, Responsibility, Restraint)
"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."
- Henry B. Adams
"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Morality, Luxury)
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Taste)
"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Men, Harm, World)
"Intimates are predestined."
- Henry B. Adams
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Purpose)
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Faith, Intelligence, Man)
"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 Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Heart, Divinity, Effort, Lies, Man, Woman)
"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 Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Goodness)
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Science, Power, Day, Existence, Mankind, May, Race, Suicide, World)
"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Belief, Man, Now)
"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 Brooks Adams
(Related: Art, Politics, Literature)
"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
- Herbert Baxter Adams
(Related: Men, Work, Ambition, Class, Motive, Spirit, Students, Will)
"On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Chicago, December, End, Force, Islands)
"Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Food, Home, Letters)
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Battle, Rest)
"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Class, First)
"I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton."
- Jack Adams
"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Chicago)
"The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: People, Advertising, Trouble)
"Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Intelligence, Advertising, Insult, Respect, Worth)
"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Beauty, Men, Advertising, Forget)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Life, Attitude, Discovery, Man, Mind)
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Attitude, Voice)
"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Fault, Rest)
"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Difference, Horses)
"People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Work, People, Day, Trouble, Want)
"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Wife, Nothing, Questions)
"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'"
- Joey Adams
(Related: Work, Success, Oil)
"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."
- Joey Lauren Adams
(Related: Name, Pain, Passion, Sound, Want)
"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
(Related: Democracy, Suicide)
"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
(Related: Effect, Independence, Glory)
"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
- John Adams
(Related: Politics, Woman, Word)
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams
(Related: Politics, War, Liberty, Mathematics, May, Philosophy, Sons, Study)
"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
(Related: Government, Now, Years)
"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
(Related: People, Hope, Freedom, Now, Talk, Thinking, Will, Writing, Years)
"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
(Related: Government, Power, Trust, Danger, Liberty, Living, Man, Maxim, Public)
"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
(Related: Men, Blind, Fate, Nation, Nations)
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Control)
"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
(Related: Aristocracy, Democracy, Suicide)
"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
(Related: Facts, May, State, Wishes)
"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
- John Adams
(Related: Fear)
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
- John Adams
(Related: Power, Soul)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, People, Constitution, Religious)
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
- John Adams
(Related: Exercise, Horses, Old, Order)
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
- John Adams
(Related: Imagination, Country, Invention, Man, Office)
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
- John Adams
(Related: Society, Abuse, Party, Words)
"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
(Related: Nature, Virtue, America, Confusion, Constitution, Credit, Honor, Ignorance, Want)
"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
(Related: Love, Admiration, Birds, Children, Heroes)
"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
(Related: Heart, Desire, Man)
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Perseverance, Difficulties, Effect, Obstacles, Patience)
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Courage, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles)
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: America)
"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
(Related: May, Reflection, Vote)
"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
(Related: Men, Honesty, Folly)
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Hope, Freedom, Will)
"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
(Related: Government, Christianity, American, Revolution, Glory, Principles)
"Genius is the talent for seeing things straight."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Successful, Day, Succeed)
"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Failure, First, Lady, Leading)
"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Life, Failure, Day, Fighting, Satisfaction)
"New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples."
- Michael Adams
(Related: Country, First, Gay, State)
"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
- Phillip Adams
(Related: Internet, Mind, states)
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Men, Ideas, Thoughts, Destruction)
"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Trying)
"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Feeling, Proof, Winter)
"Our children's children will hear a good story."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Children, Will)
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Science, Religion, Heart, Belief, Atoms, Lies, Novelty, Popular, Radical, Rejection, Stars)
"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Heart, Friend, Running, Today)
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
- Robert Adams
(Related: Television)
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Earth, Liberty, Mankind, Religious)
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Meaning, Tools, Will)
"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Life, Country, Feeling, Man, Will)
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Constitution, Country, Duty, Freedom, Worth)
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: People, Constitution, states, United)
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Life, First, Rights, Liberty, Property)
"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Knowledge, Key)
"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
(Related: Success, Successful, Failure, Goal)
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Public, Stupidity)
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Art, Creativity, Mistakes)
"The best things in life are silly."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Life, Silly)
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Numbers, Universe)
"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
(Related: Life, People, Fact)
"Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams."
- Scott Adams
"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People, Free will, Illusion, Pleasure)
"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
(Related: Cause, Company, Information, Problems)
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
- Scott Adams
(Related: Time, People, Questions)
"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
(Related: Women, Car)
"So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet."
- Will Adams
(Related: Time, Feet, Months)
"Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience."
- Will Adams
(Related: Wife, Heart, Being, Children, Christ, Conscience, Grief, Name, Poor)
"Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary."
- Will Adams
(Related: Art, Being, Geometry, Grace, Mathematics, Now, Reason, Understanding)
"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."
- Will Adams
(Related: Company, Worth)
"At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other."
- Will Adams
(Related: Time, People, Being, Boats, Harm, Understanding)
"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."
- William Adams
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, Pretty)
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, World)
"It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden."
- Robert Adamson
"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Writing, Years)
"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Encouraging, Poets, State, Visit, Writing)
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
- Joe Adcock
(Related: Past, Trying)
"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Patriotism, Hope, Affection, Interest, Nation)
"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Home, America, Future, School, Will)
"To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Amusement, Man, Pleasure)
"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Faith, Atheism, Measure)
"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
(Related: Nature, Glory, Man)
"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
(Related: Life, Immortality, Lies, Mind, Mystery, Word)
"Jesters do often prove prophets."
- Joseph Addison
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."
- Joseph Addison
"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Death, People, Fear)
"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
(Related: Life, Friendship, Enjoyment)
"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Man, Question, Will, Yield)
"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
(Related: Culture, Day, Lies, Mind)
"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
(Related: First, Hunger, Lust)
"The post of honour is a private station."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Post)
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Fortune, Humility, Youth)
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Sight)
"The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Knowledge, Man, Nothing)
"The woman that deliberates is lost."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Woman)
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Criticism, Defense, Obscurity)
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Constancy, Courtship)
"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
(Related: Nature, Age, Stars, Sun, Years, Youth)
"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
(Related: Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity)
"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
(Related: Men, Genius, Learning, Pearls, Want)
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Heart, Laughter, Man, May, Mirth)
"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
(Related: Man, Sense, Words)
"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Age, Censure, Folly, Man, Persecution, Weakness, World)
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Health, Body, Cheerfulness, Mind)
"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
(Related: Absurdity, Man, Talking, Will)
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Truth, Virtue, Man)
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Talent, Eloquence, Man, Modesty)
"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man, Mind, World)
"A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Blessings, Day, Influence)
"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
(Related: Courage, Constitution, Duty, Man, Sense)
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Posterity)
"With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: People)
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Men, Circumstances, Enemies)
"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
(Related: Greatness, Country, Heaven, Man, Wrath)
"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
(Related: Friendship, Happiness, Conversation, Enjoyment, First, Self)
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Legal, Authority, Oppression)
"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
(Related: Love, Pain, Treasure)
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Inconsistency, Temper, Weakness)
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Music, Heaven)
"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Virtue, Modesty)
"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
(Related: Cheerfulness, Clouds, Mind, Mirth, Serenity)
"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
(Related: Nature, Truth, Breeding, Gain, Praise, Sense)
"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
(Related: Force, Justice, Violence)
"Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense."
- George Ade
(Related: Nothing, Past)
"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
- George Ade
(Related: Country, Entertainment, Popular)
"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
(Related: People, Bed, Wishes)
"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
- George Ade
(Related: Being, Posterity)
"I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Thought, People, Dance, Class, Talking)
"I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Body, Name, Spirit)
"No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Artist, Singing, Want)
"My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Impression, Performance, Confidence, First)
"I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Baby, Sound)
"I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: People, Past)
"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Business, Change)
"If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell."
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Family, Company, Interest)
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: Intelligence, God, Fact, Man, Stupidity)
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: History)
"The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: Art, Politics)
"Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher."
- Konrad Adenauer
"In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles."
- Kate Adie
"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Life, Censorship, Fact, Military, Press, Right, Struggle)
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Now, Years)
"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, People, Support, Zone)
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Information, Ireland, Irish, Media, Question, Right)
"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."
- Kate Adie
(Related: People, Heart, Job)
"It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Life, Thought, People, Being, Day, Famous, Merit, Name, Now)
"If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!"
- Kate Adie
(Related: Danger, Fault)
"I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Time)
"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Progress, Being, School)
"But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, Being, First, Freedom, Information, Iraq, Justification, Nations, Right, Soldiers, United)
"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Danger, Protection)
"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Fiction, Judges)
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Nothing)
"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Care, Expression, Freedom, Interest, Journalism, Liberty, Speech)
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Mountains)
"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Order, Risk)
"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: People, Interest)
"Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Trust, Instinct, Today)
"To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: People, Attention, Needs)
"To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Change)
"I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness."
- Isabelle Adjani
"Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Life, Work, Past, Years)
"I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious."
- Isabelle Adjani
"I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: People, Pretty, Songs, Trying)
"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: First)
"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: College)
"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
(Related: Superiority)
"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
(Related: Death, People, Progress, Humanity)
"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
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Conquest, Feeling)
"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
(Related: Nature, Peace, Science, Soul, Goal, Being, Human nature, Mind, Understanding)
"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Work, Society, Sex, Behavior)
"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
(Related: Love, Law, Man, Mankind, Years)
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: War, Enemy, Future, states)
"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: War, Cooperation)
"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
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Being, Conquest, Feeling)
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Politics, War, Community, Man)
"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: War, Brothers, Murder)
"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
(Related: Will)
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Temper)
"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
(Related: Fate)
"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
(Related: Truth, Cure, Freedom, Responsibility, Tears)
"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
(Related: God, Soul, Goal, Cosmos, Man, Perfection, Stars)
"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
(Related: Family, Life, Investigation, Style)
"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
(Related: Art, Experience, Power, Potential)
"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
(Related: Measure, Wishes)
"Man knows much more than he understands."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Man)
"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
(Related: Experience, Success, Failure, Cause)
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Neglect)
"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Criticism, Learning, Literature, Will)
"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Society, Fire)
"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Action, Past)
"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Men, Light, World)
"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Society, Church, Custom, Importance, Public)
"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Legal, Time, Community, Conviction, Day, Prejudice, Rest)
"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Desire, Gain, Possession, World)
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Experience, Intellect)
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
- Felix Adler
(Related: People, Civilization, Wealth, Attention, Country, Labor)
"Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Country, Woman)
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Religion, Church, Purity, State)
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Consideration, Custom, Force, Interest, Meeting, Public)
"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Change, Heart, Conformity, Contradiction, Laws, Man, Needs, Order)
"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Law, Man, Woman)
"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Control, Chivalry, Justification, May)
"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Morality, Behavior, Culture)
"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Power, Crime)
"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Knowledge)
"The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Women, Sex)
"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Love)
"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Desire, Lust, Pleasure, Self, Wrong)
"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, People, Wonder)
"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Choice, Interest, Man, Woman)
"Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Instinct)
"Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love)
"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Love, Mother, Example)
"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, English, Names)
"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, God, Belief, Christian, World)
"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Scientists, Theories)
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Faith, Christian, First, Problems, states, United)
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Earth, Justice)
"We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others."
- Mortimer Adler
"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Care, Difference, Justice, World)
"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Meaning, Questions)
"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Giving, Pleasure)
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Men, Ideas, Ants, Pursuit)
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Lust, Pleasure, Sexuality, Want)
"No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document."
- Renata Adler
"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Experience, History, Self)
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
- Renata Adler
(Related: World)
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Fear, Yesterday)
"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Life, Truth, People, Theatre)
"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Work, Actor, Body, Mind, Voice)
"You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences."
- Stella Adler
"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Ideas, Actors)
"The play is not in the words, it's in you!"
- Stella Adler
(Related: Play, Words)
"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Time, Spiritual, Theatre)
"Your talent is in your choice."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Talent, Choice)
"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Experience, Life, Feelings, Acting, Actor, Choices)
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Art, Life, Soul)
"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Life, Truth, People, Theatre, Word)
"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Society, Body, Wrong)
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Imagination, Scientists)
"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Sense, World)
"I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family."
- Steven Adler
(Related: Family, God, Being, Support)
"I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller."
- Steven Adler
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Death, People, Humanity)
"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thought, Emotion, Nothing)
"Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society, Existence, Self, Sense)
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Men, Technology)
"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Strength, May, Will)
"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Peace, Utopia)
"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Choice)
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Eye)
"The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Catastrophes, Past)
"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: People)
"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Burden, Credit, Name)
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, Man, Tomorrow, Waiting, Yesterday)
"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Work, Quality)
"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Discrimination, Tact)
"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: First, Wrong)
"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Culture)
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Power)
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Age, Individuality, Question)
"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Destruction)
"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Violence)
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society, State)
"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Happiness, Thought)
"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: History, Language)
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Responsibility, Wrong)
"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, State)
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, Money, Consideration)
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: End, Nothing)
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society, Ideology, Interest, Risk)
"He who integrates is lost."
- Theodor Adorno
"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Harm, Past)
"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Insults)
"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thoughts)
"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Quality, Actions)
"I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right."
- Freddy Adu
(Related: Attention, Right)
"Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Actions, Country, Future, Present, Research, Years)
"There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Time, Disasters)
"The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Work, Survival, Country, Will)
"The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Ability, Actions, Country, Present)
"The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Government, Society, Work, Survival, Direction, Majority, Nation)
"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Self)
"It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Meaning, Past, Population)
"In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: History, Time, Unity)
"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Difficulties, Past, Years)
"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
- Aeschines
(Related: Constitution, Democracy, Laws, Protection, State, Suspicion)
"For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased."
- Aeschines
(Related: Men, Laws, Will)
"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Gods, Man, Misfortune)
"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Wealth, Defense, Excess, Justice, Man, Sight)
"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Act)
"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Disease, Friends, Tyranny)
"For hostile word let hostile word be paid."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Word)
"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Destiny, Man)
"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Harm, Judgment, Right, Vote)
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Heart, Friend, Poison)
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Learning, Storms)
"I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths."
- Aeschylus
"God always strives together with those who strive."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God)
"His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be."
- Aeschylus
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Wisdom, God, Heart, Despair, Forget, Grace, Pain, Sleep, Will)
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Decency, Man, Mind)
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Help)
"The man who does ill must suffer ill."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Authority, Man)
"The wisest of the wise may err."
- Aeschylus
(Related: May)
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Heart, Fear)
"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Lie, Sickness, Words)
"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Thoughts, Evil)
"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Men, Victory, Passion)
"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
- Aeschylus
(Related: Strength, Justice)
"We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Life, Prosperity)
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Haste, Man)
"We shall perish by guile just as we slew."
- Aeschylus
"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
- Aeschylus
(Related: Feeling, Guest)
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Concern, Man, Woman)
"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."
- Aeschylus
(Related: First, News)
"Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen."
- Aeschylus
"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Fate, Justice)
"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Blood)
"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Gain, Trouble, Will, Worth)
"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man, Self)
"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Happiness, Free will, Ruin)
"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Justice, Learning, Suffering)
"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
- Aesop
(Related: Poor, Worth)
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
(Related: Trust, Advice, Difficulties, Man)
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
(Related: Act, Kindness)
"United we stand, divided we fall."
- Aesop
(Related: United)
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."
- Aesop
(Related: Fire, Water)
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction."
- Aesop
(Related: Destruction, May, Self)
"Slow but steady wins the race."
- Aesop
(Related: Race)
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
- Aesop
(Related: Force, Wind)
"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
(Related: Imagination, Success, Act, Kindness)
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."
- Aesop
(Related: Content, First)
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
- Aesop
(Related: Destruction, Enemies)
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
- Aesop
(Related: Peace, Anxiety)
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop
(Related: Shadow)
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
- Aesop
(Related: Shadow)
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."
- Aesop
(Related: Evil, Ruin, Will)
"It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray."
- Aesop
"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
- Aesop
"Example is the best precept."
- Aesop
(Related: Example)
"I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Movies)
"God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Money, God, Help)
"I feel like fame is wasted on me."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Fame)
"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Being, Force)
"Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Dating, Rumors)
"You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Evil, Universe)
"You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: People, America, Entertainment, Majority, Media, World)
"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Movies, Being, President, states, United)
"When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Time, Job)
"I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Gay)
"My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Mother, Sleep, Want)
"If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: First)
"I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Learning, Quick)
"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Hope, Feeling, Fun, May, Woman)
"I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Dating, Life, Actor, Clothes)
"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Body, Ladies, Man, Now, Popular, Pretty, Thinking)
"I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Home, Animals, Environment, Space)
"When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Fear)
"After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Waking)
"For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Change, People)
"Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?"
- Casey Affleck
(Related: People)
"The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Love, History, First)
"The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: First)
"People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: People, Day, Eating)
"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Mom, Being, Choices, Conversation, Danger, Listening, Open)
"It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Actors)
"I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Character, Hate)
"I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Love, Time, Hair, Rest, Talking, Thinking)
"I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts."
- Casey Affleck
"Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty."
- John Agar
(Related: Publicity, Royalty)
"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."
- John Agar
(Related: America, First, Man)
"It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Day, End, Pretty)
"Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Time, Life, Interest, Relationships)
"First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: People, First, Tennis)
"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Gain)
"Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Son, Hair, Old, Question, Years)
"Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Desire, Want)
"Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Time, Moments, Sense)
"Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Time, Work, Day, Hard work, Nothing, Training)
"My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Father, Chicago, Day, Order, Play, School, Tennis)
"You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Dad, Life, Thought, Tennis)
"But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Court, Old, Tennis, Years)
"I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Baby, Genetics)
"It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Challenge, Fighting, World)
"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Answers, Day, Fighting, Question)
"I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Age, Career, Now, Profession)
"I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Thought, Past, Perspective)
"I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Challenge, Obstacles, Overcoming)
"Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it."
- Louis Agassiz
(Related: Truth, People, Bible, First)
"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law."
- Louis Agassiz
(Related: Connection, Facts, Law)
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
- Louis Agassiz
(Related: Money, Time, Waste)
"Study nature, not books."
- Louis Agassiz
(Related: Nature, Books, Study)
"The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature."
- Louis Agassiz
(Related: Nature, Mind, Study, Trifle)
"Even God cannot change the past."
- Agathon
(Related: Change, God, Past)
"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
- James Agee
(Related: Tradition)
"It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it."
- James Agee
(Related: Lie, Adventure, Luck, Play)
"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
(Related: Buying, Credit)
"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
(Related: Food, First, Italy, Machines, Years)
"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
(Related: Change, People, America, Credit, Now, states, United)
"The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Work)
"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
(Related: War, Cities, Disorder, Italy)
"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
(Related: Doubt, Italy, Party)
"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
(Related: Technology, War, Production, states, United)
"And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily."
- Giovanni Agnelli
(Related: Countries, Necessity, State)
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
- Giovanni Agnelli
(Related: Italy, Party)
"In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step."
- Giovanni Agnelli
(Related: Economy, Europe, First, Years)
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: states, Today, United)
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: Past)
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: People, American, Choice)
"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Father, First, Longing, Old, Song, Years)
"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Food)
"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Nature, Soul, First, Letters)
"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Love, People, Desire, Privilege)
"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Time, Father, Beginnings)
"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Memory, Pleasure, World)
"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Cities, Israel, Land, Result, Rome)
"My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Goal, Medicine, Problems, Research, Training)
"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Dad, Bible, Christmas)
"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Health, Career, Problems, World)
"Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret."
- Peter Agre
"Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Camping, Language, Russia, School)
"In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Act, states, United)
"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Enthusiasm, Energy, Remarkable)
"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Dreams, Divorce, School)
"Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Boyfriend, Career, Now, Pretty, Right)
"What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be."
- Christina Aguilera
"The roughest road often leads to the top."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Road)
"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Money, God, People, Company, Hearing, Religious, Spiritual)
"It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Work, Dream, Friends, Hard work, Will)
"Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Music, Favorite)
"Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Business, America, Job)
"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Act, Want)
"It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: People, Being, Fans)
"I'm not just another bimbo."
- Christina Aguilera
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Being, Film)
"Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: People, Act, Want)
"I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: School)
"I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Girls, School, Talk)
"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Art, History, Love, Movies, Friends, Museums, Reading, Relaxation, Writing)
"I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it."
- Christina Aguilera
"I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Fashion, Risk)
"I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Nature, Creativity)
"I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Deep, Ocean)
"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Life, Nature, Enthusiasm, Energy, Woman)
"I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Fact, Film, Reading, Theatre)
"It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing."
- Jenny Agutter
"So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: American, Paris)
"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Film, Saying)
"But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Care, Film, Man, Needs, Woman)
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved."
- Eden Ahbez
(Related: Love)
"It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: states)
"Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: History, Country)
"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
(Related: People, Freedom, Monuments, Visit)
"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
(Related: Culture, Identity, Nations, Self)
"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Islam, World)
"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
(Related: Power, Friend, Country, Force, Rights, Nations, states, United)
"Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Friendship, Future, Will)
"Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Muslim, Today, World)
"We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Desire, Public, states)
"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
(Related: Culture, World, Years)
"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
(Related: Job, Opinion, World)
"Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary."
- Kamal Ahmed
(Related: Home, Joy, News, Pleasure, Saying)
"As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment."
- Kamal Ahmed
(Related: Being, Queen, Speech, Worry)
"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
- Kamal Ahmed
(Related: News)
"For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian."
- Ama Ata Aidoo
(Related: African, Artist, Corruption, Fight, Literature)
"It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children."
- Ama Ata Aidoo
(Related: Children, First, Parents)
"If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Character, Blame, Reason)
"I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Values)
"My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime."
- Danny Aiello
(Related: Family, Democrats, Republican, Want)
"I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Beauty, Hair, Trying)
"I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: America, Celebrity, Example, Responsibility, Sound, Trying)
"I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Business, Force, Trying)
"I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Act, Obligation, Public)
"I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Music)
"I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist."
- Clay Aiken
"I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?"
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Thought, Day)
"I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Control, Beginnings)
"I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Education, Life, Love, Study)
"I auditioned just for fun."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Fun)
"Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Cats, Hate)
"I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Family, Positive, Example, Want)
"I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show."
- Clay Aiken
"Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Mother, Brother, Help)
"There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Stars)
"The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Time, Glory)
"You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Love)
"It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Difference)
"In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: People, Acceptance, World)
"I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: American, Now, Old)
"I love you, what star do you live on?"
- Conrad Aiken
(Related: Love)
"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness."
- George Aiken
(Related: Value, Wilderness)
"The best policy is to declare victory and leave."
- George D. Aiken
(Related: Policy, Victory)
"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 Aiken
(Related: People, Ideas, Worry)
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
- Leo Aikman
"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."
- Leo Aikman
(Related: Habit)
"CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
- Roger Ailes
(Related: America, Wrong)
"We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view."
- Roger Ailes
(Related: Programming)
"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Racism)
"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Life, Inferiority)
"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Music, Pleasure)
"It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Marketing, Theater, Will)
"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Woman, World)
"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Time, Work)
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Impression, Man)
"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Nothing)
"What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen."
- Anouk Aimee
"If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand."
- Jonathan Aitken
(Related: Will)
"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
- William Maxwell Aitken
(Related: Selling, Newspapers, Night, Will)
"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses."
- William Maxwell Aitken
(Related: Old)
"I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: War, Decisions, Iraq, Past, states, United, Will)
"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: American, Cities, Country, Disaster, Rest, states)
"New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Life, Cancer, Drugs, Fight, Medicine, Promise, Research)
"I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Education, Experience, Knowledge, Ability, Sound, Students)
"As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: America, Responsibility, states, United)
"A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Disease, Security)
"But my biggest passion is football."
- Greg Akcelrod
(Related: Football, Passion)
"I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three."
- Greg Akcelrod
(Related: English, France, Friends, Reality)
"I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong."
- Greg Akcelrod
(Related: People, Cancer, Disease, Europe, Fight, France, World)
"I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success."
- Greg Akcelrod
(Related: Success, Time, Work, Football, Want, Will)
"Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys."
- Mark Akenside
(Related: Trifles)
"Such and so various are the tastes of men."
- Mark Akenside
(Related: Men)
"Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Animals, Interest)
"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Being, Favorite)
"Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week."
- Malin Akerman
"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"
- Malin Akerman
(Related: American, First, Months, Past, Play, Song)
"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Soul, First, Honor, Separation)
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Wisdom, Mind, Treasure, Trouble)
"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Anger, Friend, Murder, Passion)
"Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Change, Men, Action, First, Principles, Right, Will)
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Wisdom, Folly, Fool, Ignorance, Man, Mind)
"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Power, Virtue, Heaven, Influence, Modesty, Stars, Woman)
"Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Life, Heart, Maxims, Prudence, Words)
"The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation."
- Akihito
(Related: Nation)
"The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history."
- Todd Akin
(Related: History, People, Self)
"Just dying should not be a reason for taxes."
- Todd Akin
(Related: Dying, Reason, Taxes)
"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
(Related: Government, Right)
"We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once."
- Peter Akinola
(Related: Faith, Actions)
"We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position."
- Peter Akinola
(Related: Faith, Church, Fire, Rain, Will)
"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me."
- Moustapha Akkad
(Related: Religion, Truth, Islam, Muslim, Being, Duty, Obligation)
"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message."
- Moustapha Akkad
(Related: War, Christianity, Blame, Religious, Terror)
"I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West."
- Moustapha Akkad
(Related: People, Islam, Film)
"I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Love, People, Winning)
"I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Heart, Friend, Beginning)
"I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do."
- Lauren Alaina
(Related: Love, Hope, America)
"Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: American, Harmony)
"As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Government, Stability, Will)
"Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Equality, Power, People, America, Iraq, Land)
"It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Country, Iraq)
"America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: America)
"None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Trust, Israel)
"The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Control, American, Israel, Will)
"You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Power, Countries, Israel)