Quotes and Sayings about Cure
"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)
"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Body, Cure, Forget)
"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Peace, Irish, Republicans)
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Life)
"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Result)
"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)
"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)
"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Family, Society, Children, Paradise)
"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."
- Vittorio Alfieri
(Related: Happiness, Care, Crime, Heaven, Man)
"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, Quality, American, Care, Giving, Will)
"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Promise, Research)
"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."
- Mose Allison
(Related: People)
"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Society, Vision, Cure, Ideology, Solution, Will, Wrongs)
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Thought, Action, Unconscious)
"Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: People, Now)
"Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will."
- Jon Lee Anderson
(Related: Life, War, America, Will)
"There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Life, Quality, Cure)
"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Truth, Difference, Facts, World)
"Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Government, People, Ability, Freedom, Liberty, Vote)
"Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them."
- Fiona Apple
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Man, Will)
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
- Aristotle
(Related: Pain, Pleasure)
"In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Business, Men, Hollywood, Running)
"A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism."
- Timothy Garton Ash
(Related: Policy, Cure, Democracy, Foreign policy, Terrorism)
"To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better."
- Richie Ashburn
(Related: Bed, Cure)
"To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party."
- Mary Astell
(Related: May, Party)
"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Life, Family, Success, America, Names)
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Hope, Cure, Selfishness)
"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Cure)
"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Cure)
"People want security in this insecure world."
- David Bailey
(Related: People, Security, Want, World)
"No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions."
- David Baker
(Related: Technology, Education, Cure, Customer, Effort, Legislation, Will)
"Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Government, People, Job, State)
"Never be so brief as to become obscure."
- Hosea Ballou
"When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating."
- David Baltimore
(Related: Body, Cancer, Disease, Will)
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Men, Nature, Ideas, Cure, Human nature, Will)
"There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure."
- Bernard Baruch
(Related: Cure, Man)
"Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead."
- Evan Bayh
(Related: Success, Time, Values, Party, Will)
"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer."
- Warren Beatty
(Related: Movies, Cancer, Cure, Fun)
"You're on earth. There's no cure for that."
- Samuel Beckett
(Related: Cure, Earth)
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Compassion, Cure, Will)
"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world."
- Alexander Graham Bell
(Related: Control, Nation, Will, World)
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Death, Family, Cure, Nothing, Remedies)
"The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity."
- Henri Bergson
(Related: Cure, Fault, Laughter, Vanity)
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
- George Berkeley
(Related: Truth, Eye, May)
"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."
- Isaiah Berlin
(Related: Values, Childhood, Desire, Heaven, Past)
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
- Isaiah Berlin
(Related: Men, Goals, Positive, Fighting, Revolution, Ignorance, Injustice, May, Poverty, Reform, Slavery, Variety)
"If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Cancer, Space)
"It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease."
- Nuno Bettencourt
(Related: Cure, Disease, Songs, Trying)
"Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Politics, People, American, Country, Office)
"Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Actors, Road)
"One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Affectation, Man, Pride)
"The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Government, Ageing, Economy, Nation, Population)
"I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles."
- Bjork
(Related: Selling, Mind, Play)
"Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Time, Country, Drugs, Nation, Weapons)
"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."
- William Blake
(Related: Men, Care, Worth)
"Red is the ultimate cure for sadness."
- Bill Blass
(Related: Cure, Sadness)
"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."
- William Bligh
(Related: Strength, Force, Respectability, Years)
"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
- William Bligh
(Related: Poor)
"Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'"
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Blood)
"Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction."
- James Blunt
(Related: Experience, Father, Army, Career, Direction, Help, Job, Parents, Wage)
"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute."
- Dirk Bogarde
(Related: Living, May)
"A Constitution should be short and obscure."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Constitution)
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Body, Cure, Mind, Quiet)
"Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world."
- Kit Bond
(Related: War, Friend, Winning, Support, Terror, Today, Wage, Will, World)
"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Life, Sacrifice, Blind, Cause, Man, Now, World)
"My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it."
- Victor Borge
(Related: Mother, Father, Cure, Disease)
"The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Education, Home, Success, Dream, Goals, American, Children, College, Job, Ownership)
"We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us."
- Alain de Botton
(Related: People, Attention, Fortune, May, Reason, Respect)
"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Cure, Egotism, Name, Self, Sensibility)
"I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Retirement)
"A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Christian, Adversity, State)
"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."
- Mathew Brady
(Related: Life, Will, World)
"These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders."
- Robert Brady
"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: People, Actors)
"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them."
- Constantin Brancusi
(Related: God, Work, Joy, Mystery)
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Government, Conviction, End, Law, May, Order)
"If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure."
- John Bright
(Related: Peace, War, Power, Argument, Will)
"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."
- Claude M. Bristol
(Related: Gold, Spirit)
"It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune."
- Eric Bristow
(Related: Cure, Fortune, Now, Right, Years)
"We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure."
- Charles Bronson
(Related: Thought, Belief, Answers, Cure, Help, Will)
"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Society, Company, Country, Man, Now, Pleasure)
"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."
- Bob Brown
(Related: Happiness, People, Pessimism, Future, World)
"PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces."
- Chester Brown
(Related: Faces, Girls)
"In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: People, Employees, End, Managers, Wrong)
"Death is the cure for all diseases."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Death, Cure)
"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."
- Thomas Browne
(Related: Death, Cure, Labor)
"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."
- Robert Browning
(Related: God, End, Fight, Privacy, Want)
"This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Work, Cause, Cure, Needs, Now, World)
"Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith."
- Paul Brunton
(Related: Faith, Cure, Sight, Spiritual, Worry)
"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free."
- John Bruton
(Related: People, Economy, Will)
"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Christ)
"Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal."
- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: Being, Wood)
"For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy."
- Bernhard von Bulow
(Related: Policy, Dignity, Independence)
"If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Happiness, Wealth, Man)
"I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet."
- Brooke Burke
(Related: Love, Bed, Care, Feet, Man, Rest, Want, Wonder)
"A quiet mind cureth all."
- Robert Burton
(Related: Mind, Quiet)
"Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure."
- George W. Bush
(Related: War, Women, Hope, America, American, Justice, Terror, World)
"And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure."
- William Allen Butler
(Related: Trust, Beauty, State)
"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure."
- Yancy Butler
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Men, Women, American, Liberty, Nation, Past, Teenage, World, Years)
"We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification."
- James F. Byrnes
(Related: Power, Germany)
"Absence - that common cure of love."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Love, Absence, Cure)
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."
- Joseph Campbell
(Related: Cure, Joy, World)
"I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth."
- Naomi Campbell
(Related: Truth, People, Being, Trying, Want)
"My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: God, Israel, Nation, Theology, Want, Will)
"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."
- Albert Camus
"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim."
- Elias Canetti
(Related: War, First, Want)
"I am not insecure about being a journalist."
- Tucker Carlson
(Related: Being)
"The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia."
- Jose Carreras
(Related: Life)
"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."
- Rosalynn Carter
(Related: Home, Nothing)
"I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life."
- Kim Cattrall
(Related: Life, Love, Work, Value)
"If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about."
- Thomas R. Cech
(Related: Justification, Study, Want)
"No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve."
- Miguel de Cervantes
"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
- Nicolas de Chamfort
(Related: Drugs, Medicine, Philosophy, Remedies)
"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."
- John Jay Chapman
(Related: Politics, Life, Truth, America, Conflict, Cure)
"The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think."
- Malcolm De Chazal
(Related: Man, Measure)
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
- Anton Chekhov
(Related: Disease, Remedies)
"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Being, Debate, Defense, Talk, Wrong, Years)
"I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."
- Cher
(Related: Idea)
"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Idea, Progress, Growth, Metaphor)
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Democracy, Giving, Tradition, Walking)
"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Life, Lie, Cure, Humanity, Vitality, Word, Wrongs)
"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."
- Margaret Cho
(Related: Heart, Mind, Order)
"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Intentions, Nothing)
"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Age, Abundance, Harvest, Old)
"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: God, Disease)
"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Change, Dream, Nothing, Will, World)
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
- Karl Von Clausewitz
(Related: Peace, War)
"We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn."
- William Kingdon Clifford
"We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world."
- Chelsea Clinton
(Related: Home, Friends, World)
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: America, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
- Alan Cohen
(Related: Change, Power, Life, Courage, Security)
"Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base."
- Benjamin Cohen
(Related: Customer, Space)
"I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness."
- Ornette Coleman
(Related: Music, Cure, Illness)
"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: People, First, Reputation, Will)
"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Death, Time, Cure, Freedom, Medicine)
"Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Income, Retirement, Self, Today, Want)
"Cure for an obsession: get another one."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Cure)
"If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government."
- Jim Cooper
(Related: Faith, Government, Money, Credit, Interest, states, United, Want)
"Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: May, Now, Saying, Will)
"We need to make sure we have secure borders."
- Bob Corker
"We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure."
- Hernando Cortez
(Related: Heart, Cure, Gold, Sickness)
"I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: Nation)
"Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Work, Congress, Economy, Leaders, Service, State, Will)
"There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Funny, Being, Cure, Nothing)
"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Dreams, People)
"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
(Related: Environmental, Nature, Mother, Cure, Enemy, Job, Problems)
"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Hope, Cure)
"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Men, Cure)
"Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else."
- Wayne Coyne
(Related: Music, Comfort, Cure, Sadness)
"I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer."
- Cindy Crawford
(Related: Science, Cancer, Cure, Makeup)
"He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure."
- Harry Crews
(Related: Love, Cure)
"It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code."
- Francis Crick
(Related: Nature, Nonsense)
"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says."
- George Crook
(Related: Food, Care)
"It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job."
- Mackenzie Crook
(Related: People, Successful, Job)
"I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call."
- Russell Crowe
(Related: Options)
"I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself."
- Hugh Dancy
(Related: Time, Actor, Profession)
"I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure."
- Evan Dando
"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort."
- Humphry Davy
(Related: Life, Heart, Comfort, Kindness, Smiles)
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Faith, Blind, Unconscious)
"I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure."
- Danielle Dax
(Related: Nature, Time, People, Heroes, Human nature, Insecurity, Want)
"Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements."
- Mark Dayton
(Related: Men, Women)
"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Artist, Beginning)
"Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Family, America, Cancer, Research, World)
"Hardship makes the world obscure."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Hardship, World)
"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Work, Being)
"It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: People, Eating)
"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
- Jacques Delors
(Related: Finance, Society, People, Right, State, Welfare, World)
"If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Business, America, Future, Jobs, Want, World)
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Talent, Thought, Ambition, Nothing)
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
- John Dewey
(Related: Happiness, Opportunity, Key)
"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Gifts, Want)
"Grease is the only cure for a hangover."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Cure)
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea."
- Isak Dinesen
(Related: Cure, Sea, Tears)
"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Government, Opposition)
"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Power, People, Duty, Welfare)
"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
- Harold W. Dodds
(Related: Force, Insecurity, Old)
"For infants and toddlers learning and living are the same thing. If they feel secure, treasured, loved, their own energy and curiosity will bring them new understanding and new skills."
- Amy Laura Dombro
(Related: Curiosity, Energy, Learning, Living, Understanding, Will)
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Life, Nation)
"In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential."
- Jim Doyle
(Related: Day, Potential, Research)
"I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure."
- Jim Doyle
(Related: Family, Politics, Life, Conscience, Cure, Disease, Suffering)
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
- John Dryden
(Related: Man, Today, Tomorrow)
"But love's a malady without a cure."
- John Dryden
(Related: Love, Cure)
"My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Funny, People, Friend)
"If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure."
- Trevor Dunn
(Related: Music, Want)
"But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts."
- Kirsten Dunst
(Related: Thoughts, Decisions, Self)
"There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure."
- Will Durant
(Related: Age, Money, Cure, Nothing, Socialism, Will)
"We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure."
- Dick Durbin
(Related: Police)
"There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling."
- Fred Durst
(Related: Anxiety, Feeling)
"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Genius, Reality, Rebellion, United)
"Only the insecure strive for security."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Security)
"I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us."
- Sylvia Earle
(Related: Health, Hope, Help, Ocean, Will)
"It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood."
- Charles Eastman
(Related: Women, Civilization, Blood, Morals, Purity, Woman)
"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
- Clint Eastwood
(Related: Extreme, Man, Prejudice)
"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
- Clint Eastwood
(Related: Extreme, Fact, Man, Prejudice)
"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way."
- Isabelle Eberhardt
(Related: Death, Want)
"Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure."
- Meister Eckhart
"Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence."
- George Alec Effinger
(Related: Adolescence, Cure)
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Love, Faith, Intelligence, America, Cure, Energy, Freedom, Nothing, Wrong)
"The past cannot be cured."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Past)
"I cured with the power that came through me."
- Black Elk
(Related: Power)
"The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Challenge, Cure)
"Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Medical, Ideas, Cure, Research)
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Work, Cure)
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Truth, Fiction, Reality)
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
- Epictetus
(Related: Desire, Enjoyment, Freedom)
"Prevention is better than cure."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Cure, Prevention)
"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Nothing)
"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: People, Israel, Prosperity, Security, State)
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Fear, Direction, Rights, Human rights, State)
"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Countries, Mortality, Problems, Sense)
"Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited."
- Suzanne Farrell
"I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises."
- Chaka Fattah
(Related: Work, People, Benefits, Promise, Retirement, Risk, Security, Widows, Will)
"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."
- Chaka Fattah
(Related: Experience, Time, African, American, Children, College, Cure, Years)
"It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured."
- Dianne Feinstein
(Related: Government, Hope, Americans, Research, Will)
"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."
- Adam Ferguson
(Related: Men, Society, Philosophy)
"I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent."
- Lou Ferrigno
(Related: Fault, May, Nothing, Right, Saying, Trying)
"The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."
- W. C. Fields
(Related: Cure, Sleep)
"There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Men, Cure, Drugs, Reason)
"I like big, secure companies. I know what they do for a living. When I see their names on my monthly statement I know how they make their money."
- John Fisher
(Related: Money, Living, Names)
"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles."
- Ronald Fisher
(Related: Work, Truth, Books, Detail, Neglect, Present, Principles, Stress, Teaching, Weight)
"When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?"
- Henry Flynt
(Related: Time, People, Ability, Artists, Famous)
"Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Government, People, American, Elderly, Future, Poverty, Security)
"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."
- Jean de La Fontaine
(Related: Fear, Cure, Faults, Shame)
"The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom."
- Steve Forbes
(Related: Government, Health, Care, Cure, Freedom, Today)
"Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives."
- Anne Ford
(Related: Successful, Children, Learning)
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Charity, Crime, Cure, Poverty, Punishment, Wrong)
"When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: People)
"We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure."
- Liam Fox
(Related: Will)
"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."
- Michael J. Fox
(Related: Medical, Science, Time, Progress, Cure, Disease, Prevention, Treatment)
"Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now."
- Terry Fox
(Related: People, Cancer, Cure, Now, Running)
"A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure."
- John Foxe
(Related: Christian, Being, Mercy)
"He that's secure is not safe."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Retirement, Words)
"Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen."
- Bill Frist
(Related: America, Focus, Nation, Will)
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Insecurity)
"The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Insecurity)
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
- Robert Fulghum
(Related: Death, Dreams, Imagination, Love, Experience, History, Knowledge, Hope, Cure, Facts, Grief, Laughter, Myth)
"I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers."
- Albert Gallatin
(Related: Belief, Public, Wrong)
"While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Laws, Nations, Open)
"Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Americans, Congress, Harm)
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Beauty, Talent)
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Home, Life, Land, Sea)
"Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out."
- Teri Garr
(Related: Cure, May)
"That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity."
- Gloria Gaynor
(Related: Insecurity)
"I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases."
- Gina Gershon
(Related: Money, Cure, Pretty, Project, Research, Trying)
"I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure."
- Barry Gibb
(Related: People, Famous)
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
- Edward Gibbon
(Related: Freedom, Possessions, Poverty)
"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Greatness, Poverty)
"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Family, Home, Building, Children, Woman)
"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
- Andre Gide
(Related: Soul, Sin)
"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Happiness, World)
"There is still no cure for the common birthday."
- John Glenn
(Related: Birthday, Cure)
"Precaution is better than cure."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Cure)
"I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental."
- Kim Gordon
(Related: Time)
"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."
- Baltasar Gracian
"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be."
- Lindsey Graham
(Related: Energy, Nation)
"The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior."
- Temple Grandin
(Related: Behavior, Cure, Help, Machine, May, Relax, Will)
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."
- Ulysses S. Grant
(Related: Execution, Laws)
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
- Robert Graves
(Related: Cure, May, Medicine, Prevention)
"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Man, Prison, Security)
"God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill."
- William Gurnall
(Related: God, Cure, Kisses, Sin, Wounds)
"As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure."
- Frank Hague
"I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure."
- Jessica Hahn
(Related: Ugly)
"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
- Alexander Hamilton
(Related: Politics, Religion, Fire, Persecution)
"I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism."
- Herbie Hancock
(Related: Buddhism)
"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."
- William Christopher Handy
(Related: Money, Eyes, Longing, Name)
"I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: War, People, Americans, Democracy, End, Freedom, Terror, Tyranny, Will, World)
"In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Fathers, Founding, Independence, Nation, Summer, Today)
"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
- Louise L. Hay
(Related: Love, Cure, Miracles)
"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."
- Friedrich August von Hayek
(Related: Government, Dependence, Fact, Freedom, Voting)
"It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know."
- Friedrich August von Hayek
(Related: Society, Importance)
"The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure."
- Hugh Hefner
(Related: Life, Idea, Man)
"The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone."
- Robert Heilbroner
(Related: Government, Capitalism, Class, Cure)
"The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe."
- Gustav Heinemann
(Related: Peace, Time, Europe)
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: Food, Science, Isolation, Solution, Writers)
"I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait."
- Chris Hemsworth
(Related: Moments, Personality)
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
- Patrick Henry
(Related: People, May, Will)
"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Day, Girls, Leisure, Miracles, Tomorrow)
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Love, People)
"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
- Theodor Herzl
(Related: Society, Land, Law, Will)
"Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable."
- Theodor Herzl
(Related: People, Palestine)
"The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Health, Education, Quality, People, Care, Jobs, Water)
"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Comfort, Cure)
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Cure)
"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
- David Hobson
(Related: Garden, Order, Right, Winter)
"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Public)
"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Related: Education, Time, Investigation, Obvious)
"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Action, Body, Depression, Wounds)
"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
- J. Edgar Hoover
(Related: Crime, Cure)
"I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things."
- Anthony Hopkins
"I strive to be brief but I become obscure."
- Horace
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
- Horace
(Related: Soul, Cure, Eye)
"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure."
- Horace
"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
- Horace
(Related: Struggle)
"Action cures fear, inaction creates terror."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Fear, Action, Inaction, Terror)
"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other."
- Joseph Howe
(Related: Power, Punishment)
"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
- William Dean Howells
(Related: Happiness, Action)
"You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want."
- Brett Hull
(Related: Care, Sexuality, Want)
"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
- David Hume
(Related: Education, History, Men, Delusion, Learning, Sense)
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
- David Hume
(Related: Government, People, Will)
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
- John Hurt
(Related: Acting, Painting, Parents)
"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
- Francis Hutcheson
(Related: Happiness, Action, Numbers)
"So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure."
- John Hutton
(Related: Growth, Environment, Europe, Focus, Jobs, Visions)
"It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Blessings, Rights)
"All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Constitution, Rights, Nothing, Worth)
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Government, People, Conscience, Rights, Liberty, Press, Property, Will, Worth)
"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing."
- Andrew Jackson
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
- Bruce Jackson
(Related: America, Cure, Prison)
"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Cure, Feeling, Wrong)
"The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about."
- Charles James
(Related: Cure, Past)
"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."
- William James
(Related: Cure, Prayer, Worry)
"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."
- Fredric Jameson
(Related: Home, War, Achievement, Effort, End, states, United, World, World war, Writing)
"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Philosophy)
"In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders."
- Bobby Jindal
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Ambition, Fortune, Man, Office)
"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: Work, People, Cure, Hard work, Minority, Poor, Preparation)
"Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision."
- Joseph Joubert
(Related: Vision, Words)
"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."
- H. Stanley Judd
(Related: Life, People, Want, Will)
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Cure, Man, Will)
"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Cure, Darkness, Evil, Help, Understanding)
"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Control, Environment, Military, Police)
"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Cure, Disease, Promise, Suffering)
"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."
- Irving R. Kaufman
(Related: Mind, Perspective, Precedents, Profession, Routine)
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Science, Apathy, Cure, May)
"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Apathy, Cure, May)
"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: History, Cure, Dawn, Magic, Mankind, Road)
"Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Government, American, Promise, Retirement, Years)
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Peace, War, Fact)
"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Peace, War, America, Americans, Hate, Want, Will, World)
"We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
- John F. Kerry
(Related: America, Chaos)
"Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel."
- Persis Khambatta
(Related: People, Actor, Insecurity)
"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."
- Tracy Kidder
(Related: Leader, People, Hope, Cure, Help, World)
"As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Health, America, Nation, President, Responsibility, State)
"More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Life, Americans, Fact, Research)
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Peace, Hope, Brotherhood, Justice, Lies, World)
"Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string."
- Hugh Kingsmill
"Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do."
- Calvin Klein
"We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today."
- Herb Kohl
(Related: Future, Promise, Retirement, Security, Today)
"Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases."
- Mort Kondracke
(Related: Cure, Research)
"And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine."
- Mort Kondracke
(Related: Cure, Medicine)
"The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: War, Wife, Cure)
"I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me."
- Chantal Kreviazuk
(Related: Music, World)
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Mind, Security, Tradition)
"I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: Life, Hollywood, Will, Wonder)
"More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Enemy, Fight, Land, Needs, Protection, Sea)
"You can die of the cure before you die of the illness."
- Michael Landon
(Related: Cure, Illness)
"In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures."
- Philip Larkin
(Related: Life, Love, Difference, Nothing, Sense)
"America needs to be secure at home and abroad."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Home, America, Needs)
"Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Life, Quality, Positive, America, Congress, Direction, Responsibility, Will)
"My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Travel, Goal, Commerce)
"I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Care, Cure, Thinking, Will, Youth)
"Actors are such an insecure breed."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Actors)
"The only cure for grief is action."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Action, Cure, Grief)
"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Love, Movies, Work)
"The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Government, Life, America, Living, Production, Will, Workers)
"We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Geese, Numbers)
"By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Encouraging, Conservation, Country, Energy, Future, Oil, Production)
"The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Want)
"Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Truth, People, Delight)
"We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Goal, Americans, Building, Community, Iraq, states, United)
"There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights."
- Judith Light
(Related: Cure, Fight, Focus, Rights, Human rights)
"I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model."
- Adriana Lima
(Related: Time, Work, Girls)
"Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: America, Decisions, Tax, Prosperity, Responsibility, Retirement)
"One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Peace, Development, Financial, Country, Global warming, Public, Security, Stability)
"The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Energy, Fact, National security, World)
"But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Blood, Cure, Day, Disease, Potential)
"Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained."
- James Loeb
(Related: Excellence, Existence)
"Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty."
- Zoe Lofgren
(Related: Americans, Poverty, Retirement, Security)
"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Cure)
"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way."
- John Lone
(Related: Mother, Will)
"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
- Nia Long
(Related: Business, Work, Actor, Attention)
"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Today, Tomorrow)
"The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people."
- Adolf Loos
(Related: Money, People, Law, Vice)
"Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art."
- Adolf Loos
(Related: Art, Comfort, Man)
"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Superiority, Honesty, Humility, Sarcastic)
"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can."
- Samuel Lover
(Related: Cure, Literature, Man, Nothing, Pen)
"The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity."
- Richard Lugar
(Related: Power, Conflict, Cure, Disease, Humanity, Poverty, Responsibility, states, United)
"My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Heart, Bed, Body, Cure)
"It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: People, Cure, Friends, Hell)
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
- Thomas B. Macaulay
(Related: Cure, Freedom)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
- Ross MacDonald
(Related: Cure, Nothing, Ocean, Wrong)
"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: Men, Ambition, First)
"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."
- Agnes Macphail
(Related: Men, Women, Equality, Angels, Being, Want)
"You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself."
- Elle Macpherson
(Related: Business, End, Facts, Feeling)
"I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation."
- Dolley Madison
(Related: Property)
"At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house."
- Dolley Madison
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
- James Madison
(Related: Government, Happiness, People, Idea, Virtue, Liberty, Will)
"Sadat made us feel more secure."
- Naguib Mahfouz
"We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure."
- Jena Malone
(Related: Family)
"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
- Nelson Mandela
(Related: Israel, states)
"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
- Abraham Maslow
(Related: People, Feelings, Affection, Behavior, Fact, Security, Will)
"Work cures everything."
- Henri Matisse
(Related: Work)
"Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Society, Lies, Misery, Slavery, Welfare)
"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice."
- John McCain
(Related: Peace, Fight, Iraq, Justice, Liberty, Today, Value, Will)
"And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'"
- John McCain
(Related: Government, People, Environment, State, Wit)
"Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much."
- Michael McCaul
(Related: Cancer, Children, Cure, Day, Disease, Loss, Will)
"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Money, Friends, Fun)
"This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Government, Safety)
"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."
- Sarah McLachlan
(Related: Music, Confidence, Friends, Pretty)
"I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: People, Protection)
"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Contempt, Cure)
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Feeling, Self)
"I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure."
- Eva Mendes
(Related: Time, People, Needs)
"Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Boston, Committee)
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
- Karl A. Menninger
(Related: Love, People)
"Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do."
- Alyssa Milano
(Related: People, Actors, Career, Opinions)
"Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better."
- Michael Milken
(Related: Cancer, Disease, Scientists)
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Work, Communication)
"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
- Spike Milligan
(Related: Cure)
"I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that."
- Juliet Mills
(Related: Thought, Ballet, School, Years)
"I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Time, Control, Network)
"Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Cure, Disease)
"I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer."
- Mary Ann Mobley
(Related: Cancer, Cure)
"I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting."
- Dominic Monaghan
(Related: People, Jobs, Pretty, Waiting)
"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."
- Ashley Montagu
(Related: Health, Cure, Disease, Public)
"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Soul, Poverty)
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
- Maria Montessori
(Related: Education, Power, Giving, Observation, Saying, Senses)
"There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg."
- Mary Tyler Moore
(Related: Life, Being, Now, Right)
"And government's only role is to secure our rights for us."
- Roy Moore
(Related: Government, Rights)
"I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids."
- Alison Moyet
(Related: Class, Cure, Kids, School)
"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Government, Technology, Cooperation, Law)
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
- Edward R. Murrow
(Related: Obvious)
"I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach."
- Bill Muse
(Related: History, People, Future, Profession, Will)
"This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials."
- Michael Musto
(Related: Truth, Americans, Being, Commitment, Irony, Senses, Today, Yearning)
"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives."
- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Love, Work, Fiction)
"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."
- Vladimir Nabokov
(Related: Existence)
"Power has to be insecure to be responsive."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Power)
"What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology)
"You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Aviation, Focus, Job, World)
"The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle."
- Randy Neugebauer
(Related: Act, Legislation, Now, President, Security)
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Racism, Soldiers)
"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
(Related: Religion, Cure, Nation, Pride)
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Love, Cure)
"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Father)
"If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime."
- Charles Eliot Norton
(Related: Peace, War, Crime, Defense)
"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure."
- Henri Nouwen
(Related: Cure, Listening, Meaning, Silence, Words)
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
- Henri Nouwen
(Related: Advice, Giving, Pain, Wounds)
"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Family, Health, Work, Labor, Retirement, Security, Today, Wage)
"In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Cure, Help, President, Research, Right)
"The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired."
- Wilhelm Ostwald
(Related: Work, Exhaustion, Rest)
"Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul."
- James Otis
(Related: Soul, Emotions, Man, May, Terror, Tyranny)
"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."
- Ovid
(Related: Cure)
"Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs."
- Ovid
(Related: Love)
"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."
- Major Owens
(Related: Technology, Concern, Effort, Nation, Will, Years)
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Duty, Enemy, Liberty, Oppression, Will)
"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."
- Daniel D. Palmer
(Related: Body, Mind)
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether."
- Jim Palmer
(Related: Cure, Wrong)
"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
- Tom G. Palmer
(Related: Questions)
"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"
- Paracelsus
(Related: Soul, Body)
"What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?"
- Paracelsus
(Related: Cure, Sense)
"On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well."
- Anne Parillaud
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Love, Truth, Falsehood)
"I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that."
- George Pataki
(Related: Government, Energy, Fight)
"There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Cure)
"I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Meetings, Pleasure, Profit)
"The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that."
- John Perkins
(Related: Change, Positive, Country, World)
"It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: Fun, Job, Writing)
"Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out."
- David Petraeus
(Related: Literature, Oil, Trying, Will)
"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."
- Petrarch
(Related: Mother, Cure, Disgust, Variety)
"The Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act of 2005 is bipartisan legislation directing funding and promoting education and research toward the goal of preventing, treating and curing arthritis."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Education, Control, Goal, Act, Cure, Legislation, Prevention, Research)
"Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Medical, Americans, Cure, Disease, Injury, Therapy)
"Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease."
- David Hyde Pierce
(Related: Family, Cure, Disease)
"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: Work, Talent, Being, Cure, Fact, Fire, Invention, Writer)
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Cure)
"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?"
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
(Related: Family, Home, Hope, Children, Cure, Force, Right, Violence, Will)
"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Science, Harmony, Language, Words)
"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Pet, Students)
"Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress."
- John Pople
(Related: Home, Life, Progress, Jobs, Meetings)
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."
- Karl Popper
(Related: Freedom, Reason, Security)
"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
- Dennis Potter
(Related: Love)
"Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Men, Smoking, Swine)
"I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl."
- Katie Price
(Related: Deep)
"I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time."
- Katie Price
(Related: Time)
"Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician."
- Matthew Prior
(Related: Disease, Night, Yesterday)
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Time, Dream, Cure)
"I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders."
- Mark Pryor
(Related: Fight, Nation, Risk, Security, Will)
"Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life."
- Vladimir Putin
(Related: Life, Country, Living)
"Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man."
- Barbara Pym
(Related: Man, Quotations)
"Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects."
- Sima Qian
(Related: Criticism, Hurt, Illness, May, Medicine, Will)
"Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived."
- Francis Quarles
(Related: Fear, Possibility, Defeat, Folly, Fortune, May, Nothing)
"Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected."
- Ludwig Quidde
(Related: Peace, Countries, Military, Security)
"The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace."
- Ludwig Quidde
(Related: Peace, Idea, May, Popular, Security)
"Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better."
- Ron Reagan
(Related: Ignorance, Leaders, Now, Republican, Research)
"Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Golf, Walking)
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."
- Thomas Reed
(Related: Hope, Legislation, World)
"Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes."
- Charley Reese
(Related: Government, Congress, Cure, Man, Taxes, Want)
"I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am."
- Trent Reznor
"By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them."
- David Ricardo
(Related: Country, Desire, May)
"If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it."
- David Ricardo
(Related: Quantity, Value, Words)
"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."
- David Ricardo
(Related: Food, First, Land, Population)
"I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about."
- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Film)
"If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'."
- John Ritter
(Related: Company, Cure, Disease, Song)
"The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image."
- Jane Roberts
(Related: Time, Cure, Illness, Self)
"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."
- Paul Robeson
(Related: Peace, People, Goal, Force, Labor, Mankind, Population, Pursuit)
"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
- Maximilien Robespierre
(Related: Crime, Innocence)
"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure."
- John Buchanan Robinson
(Related: Suspicion)
"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit."
- John Buchanan Robinson
(Related: Wealth, Country, Gold, Value)
"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Being, Rest)
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Ambition, Generosity, Interest, Order)
"White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!"
- George Lincoln Rockwell
(Related: People, Survival, Man)
"In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Change, Growth, Cure, May, Now, Personal growth, professionals, Question, Years)
"I told them I would work to strengthen and secure Medicare for generations to come, and I told them I would fight for a new prescription drug benefit under Medicare."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Work, Fight, Generations)
"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."
- Richard Rogers
(Related: End, Public, Right)
"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."
- Sonny Rollins
(Related: Death, Work, Being, Drinking, Jazz, Musicians)
"I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience."
- Ray Romano
(Related: Insecurity, Want)
"We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Admiration, Help, Nation, Respect, Service)
"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Government, Peace, People, Rights, Living, Nation, Nothing)
"Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Cure, End)
"If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster."
- Joseph Rotblat
(Related: Policy, Countries, Disaster, Present, Security, states, Weapons)
"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."
- Mickey Rourke
(Related: Movies, Mistake, People, Years)
"The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes."
- Arundhati Roy
(Related: Politics, Banks, Community, Congress, Order, Vote)
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Government, Freedom, Opinion)
"You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Money, Being, Cure, Feeling)
"I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Life, Career, Choices, Confidence, Day, Learning, Now, Self, Sense)
"Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Intelligence, Time, War, Future, Information, Risk, Terror)
"Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio."
- Morley Safer
(Related: Cure)
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
- George Sand
(Related: Experience, Genius, Effort, Simplicity, World)
"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."
- Jimmy Sangster
(Related: Life, Old)
"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
- George Santayana
(Related: Pain)
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana
(Related: Death, Cure)
"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
- George Santayana
(Related: People, End, Prayer)
"English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science."
- Edward Sapir
(Related: Science, Diplomacy, English, Language)
"Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Ethics, Man, Perfection, Personality)
"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."
- David Seabury
(Related: Thoughts)
"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Citizenship, Compromise, Future, Giving, Guest, Labor, Needs, Workers)
"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Negative, Children, Fact, Retirement, Will)
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Being, Cure, Leisure, Occupation)
"The cure for sorrow is to learn something."
- Barbara Sher
(Related: Cure, Sorrow)
"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace."
- William Tecumseh Sherman
(Related: Peace, War, Today, Will)
"The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war."
- William Tecumseh Sherman
(Related: War)
"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change."
- Jenny Shipley
(Related: Change, Peace, Women, Decision, Desire)
"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."
- Jenny Shipley
(Related: Peace, Wisdom, Courage)
"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."
- Martin Short
(Related: People, Jokes)
"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Education, Discrimination, Racism, Results)
"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all."
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
(Related: Peace, War, Support)
"For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: End, Fraud, Repentance, Shame)
"I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else."
- Ashlee Simpson
(Related: People, Saying)
"I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat."
- Gary Sinise
(Related: Theatre)
"We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Americans, Research, Responsibility)
"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
- Alfred E. Smith
(Related: Democracy)
"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
- Dodie Smith
(Related: Deeds, Depression)
"Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance."
- Gerrit Smith
(Related: Rights, Man)
"I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Cure, First, Worry)
"No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to."
- Robert Smith
(Related: Cure, End, Ending, Want, Will)
"More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure."
- Roy L. Smith
(Related: People, Scripture)
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
- Sydney Smith
(Related: Men, Talent, Courage, Day, Effort, First, Timidity, Want, World)
"In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Security, Words)
"When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure."
- DeForest Soaries
(Related: Confidence, Democracy, Freedom, Public, Voting)
"Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure."
- King Solomon
(Related: Faithfulness, Kindness)
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: People, Help, Past, Possession, Space)
"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."
- Sophocles
(Related: Virtue)
"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."
- Sophocles
(Related: Fraud)
"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."
- Sophocles
(Related: Cure, Man, Wishes)
"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."
- Sophocles
(Related: Cure, Gold, Tears, Weeping)
"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is."
- Sophocles
(Related: Cure, Pain, Words)
"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms."
- Wole Soyinka
(Related: Government, Beginning, Fact, Nothing)
"I was always insecure about the way I looked."
- Timothy Spall
"If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
- Arlen Specter
(Related: War, Cancer, Nixon, President, Research, Today)
"Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding."
- Arlen Specter
(Related: Heart, Cancer, Disease)
"Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement."
- Debbie Stabenow
(Related: Life, Greatness, American, Nation, Retirement, Security, Sense, Value)
"People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know."
- John Stamos
(Related: Life, People, Girls)
"All actors are incredibly insecure."
- Terence Stamp
(Related: Actors)
"The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity."
- Leland Stanford
(Related: Intelligence, Benefits, Humanity, Right, Skill)
"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them."
- Michael Steele
(Related: Business, People, American, Care, Country, First)
"As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked."
- Peter Steele
(Related: Humor)
"Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Chance, Cure, Effect, Law)
"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
- Stendhal
(Related: Age, Boredom, Cure)
"The obscurest epoch is today."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Today)
"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."
- Potter Stewart
(Related: Home, History, Rights, Man)
"It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled."
- Ezra Stiles
(Related: Liberty, Pleasure, Public, states, United)
"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."
- Caskie Stinnett
(Related: Being, Trouble)
"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."
- Gustav Stresemann
(Related: Peace, Power)
"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted."
- Peter Stuyvesant
(Related: War, Peace, England, Possessions, Praise)
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers."
- Ed Sullivan
(Related: Time, Cure, Job, Joy, Spiritual)
"Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense."
- Arthur H. Sulzberger
(Related: Time, Negative, Obvious, Waste)
"Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace."
- Kim Il sung
(Related: Peace)
"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
- Thomas Szasz
(Related: Nature, Purpose, Illness, Name, Obvious)
"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
- Ron Taffel
(Related: Being)
"And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future."
- Henry Taube
(Related: Science, Benefits, Future, Understanding)
"And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape."
- Billy Tauzin
"We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells."
- William Taylor
(Related: Morals, Sea, Wine)
"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
- Mother Teresa
(Related: Love, Money, God, People, Cure, Poor)
"Anyone who truly loves God travels securely."
- Saint Teresa
(Related: God)
"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."
- Margaret Thatcher
(Related: Cure, Disease, Socialism, Trying)
"If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different."
- Kristin Scott Thomas
(Related: People, Feeling)
"Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Experience, Work, Opportunity, Job, Windows, World)
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
- Edward Thorndike
(Related: Life, Circumstances, Intellect, May, Pleasure, Welfare)
"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
- Thucydides
(Related: Favors, Friends)
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
- James Thurber
(Related: Light)
"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Women, Heart, Cure)
"The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Society, Culture, Games, Meaning, Years)
"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."
- Polly Toynbee
(Related: Happiness, Time, People, Causes, Now, Unhappiness)
"Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: Ideas, Fire, Mind)
"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Truth, Feeling)
"Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."
- Thomas Tryon
(Related: Oppression, Violence)
"Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain."
- Benjamin Tucker
(Related: Pain)
"I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools."
- Charles Tupper
(Related: Education, Reason, Schools, Teachers)
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
- Sun Tzu
(Related: Opportunity, Defeat, Enemy, Lies)
"There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important."
- Mark Udall
(Related: Question)
"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."
- Miguel de Unamuno
(Related: God, Idea, Affliction, Caring, Concern, Cure, May)
"Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold."
- Jerry Vale
(Related: Cure, Popular, Remedies)
"But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease."
- Jim Valvano
(Related: Cancer, Disease, Support)
"And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!"
- Jim Valvano
(Related: Work, Cancer, Fight, Research, Want)
"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."
- Alvaro Uribe Velez
(Related: Dream, Hatred, Nation)
"There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world."
- Guy Verhofstadt
(Related: Cure, Problems, World)
"Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations."
- Guy Verhofstadt
(Related: Brothers, Conviction, Duty, Freedom, Future, Generations, Ideals, Now, Order, Suffering)
"Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa."
- Thomas Vilsack
(Related: Quality, Key)
"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure."
- David Viscott
(Related: Cure, Disease)
"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."
- Stephen Vizinczey
(Related: Education, Cure, Learning, May, Stupidity)
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
- Voltaire
(Related: Art, Nature, Disease, Medicine)
"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."
- Kurt Vonnegut
(Related: Cancer, Cure, Prejudice, Utopia, Will)
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
- Kurt Vonnegut
(Related: People, Disease, Loneliness, Today)
"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Fear, Opportunity, Competition, Democracy, Distrust)
"We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do."
- Malcolm Wallop
(Related: Science, People, Nation, World)
"Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history."
- Jim Walsh
(Related: History, American, Security)
"With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: Change, Energy, Fact, Oil, states, United, Will, World)
"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."
- An Wang
(Related: Running)
"The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address."
- Mercy Otis Warren
(Related: Court, Influence)
"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
- George Washington
(Related: Experience, Cure, Error, Favors, Illusion, Nation, Pride)
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
- George Washington
(Related: War, Peace, Desire, Insult, Prosperity)
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
- George Washington
(Related: Success, Soul, Discipline, Army, Numbers)
"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Ideas, Purpose, Clarity, Practice, Writing)
"We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Cure, Research)
"I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot."
- Anthony Wayne
(Related: Power, March, Tomorrow, Troops)
"No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
- Noah Webster
(Related: Government, Religion, Truth, People, Christian, Rights, Mind)
"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."
- George Weinberg
(Related: Cure, Obstacles)
"Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure."
- Lawrence Welk
(Related: Music, Home, Joy)
"Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws."
- Allen West
(Related: Laws)
"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
- Jessamyn West
(Related: Fiction, Reality)
"I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them."
- William H. Wharton
(Related: Now, Self)
"Be obscure clearly."
- E. B. White
"The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts."
- Katherine Whitehorn
(Related: Cure, Disease)
"The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Question)
"Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities."
- Roger Wicker
(Related: Countries, Information, National security)
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Soul, Cure, Nothing, Senses)
"I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world."
- Montel Williams
(Related: Cure, Public, Reason, World)
"As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal."
- Montel Williams
(Related: Goal, Cure, Will)
"You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us."
- Marianne Williamson
(Related: God, People, Glory, Nothing, World)
"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: Years)
"We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities."
- William Griffith Wilson
(Related: God, Vision, Day, Spiritual, Will)
"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Actors)
"I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing."
- Kip Winger
(Related: Money, Poison)
"It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages."
- Isaac Mayer Wise
"It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!"
- Alicia Witt
(Related: People, Day)
"There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
- P. G. Wodehouse
(Related: Cure, Hair)
"There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced."
- Markus Wolf
(Related: Love, Time, Women, Information, Service, Variety)
"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."
- Tom Wolfe
(Related: Cure, Loneliness, Vanity)
"What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
(Related: Men, Church, Man, Property, Reason)
"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
(Related: Life, Virtue, Contracting, Independence, Will)
"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Sex, Benefits, Country, Fighting, Instinct, Will)
"Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity."
- William Wordsworth
(Related: Nature, Infinity, Suffering)
"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Engineering, Focus, Programming)
"Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure."
- Fay Wray
(Related: Work, Theater)
"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."
- Frances Wright
(Related: Equality, Men, Talent, Genius, Knowledge, Exercise, Rights)
"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."
- Orville Wright
(Related: Efficiency)
"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
(Related: Happiness, Battle, Cure, Depression, Fight, Wonder, Worth)
"To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe."
- Peter Yarrow
(Related: Causes, Cure, Hatred, Violence, Will)
"American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure."
- John Yoo
(Related: American, Fire, Soldiers, Weapons)
"One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it."
- Jason Zebehazy
(Related: Nature, Human nature, World)
"Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money."
- Renee Zellweger
(Related: Money, Being, Film)
"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
- Howard Zinn
(Related: Society, Power, Ideas, Control, Corporate, Politicians, Press, Soldiers, Television, Will)
"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
- Emile Zola
(Related: Perfection, Regret)