Quotes and Sayings about Man
"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Peace, Israel, Security, Want)
"As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: End, Influence, Man, Needs, Population)
"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Teamwork, Dumb, Man, Pretty, Stupidity)
"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Love, Anger, Man, Nothing)
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Luxury, Necessity, Spirit, Wilderness)
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Friend, Man)
"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Abortion, Right, State, Woman)
"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Money, Work, Publishing, Wrong)
"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Successful, First, Writer)
"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Magic, Theories)
"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Ruin, Teachers)
"That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Europe, Tax, Stars, Today)
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Movies, Home, Television)
"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Now, Routine, Years)
"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
- John Abbott
(Related: Being, Man, Questions)
"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."
- John Abbott
(Related: Ability, Culture, Man, May)
"It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Pity)
"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Man, Reason, Rest)
"The highest qualities of character... must be earned."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Character)
"Patience is passion tamed."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Passion, Patience)
"I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow."
- Lyman Abbott
"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Flowers)
"Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Life, Virtue, Innocence, March, Temptation, Vice)
"Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Life, Virtue, Innocence, March, Temptation, Vice)
"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Virtue, Infinite, Possibilities, Vice)
"Religion is not a conclusion of the reason."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Religion, Reason)
"Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Peace, Being, Promise, Succeed, World)
"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Knowledge, Opportunity, Numbers)
"There are many talented people."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: People)
"Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Artists, Jobs, Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Nature, Cheating, Human nature)
"I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, Islam, Muslim, Americans, Being, Burden, Challenge, Race)
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Man)
"Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?"
- King Abdullah II
(Related: Age, People, Humanity, Today)
"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
- Agha Hasan Abedi
(Related: Work, People, Management)
"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Desire, Photography)
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Determination, Man)
"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Experience, Ability, Destiny, Man, Unity)
"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Invention, Needs)
"Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Life, Poetry, Attitude)
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Society, Development, Repetition, Will)
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Control, First, Saying)
"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot."
- Edmond About
(Related: Men, Country, Information, Opinions, Question, states)
"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Actor, English, Language, Man, Now, Talk, Trying)
"Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Success, Character, Performance)
"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Son, Act, First, Russia)
"Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Power, Man, Quiet, Sense)
"I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Man, Miracles, Talk, Want)
"As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Fact, Man, Old, Preparation)
"Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: America, Being)
"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dream, Magic)
"You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: History, People, Values, Culture, Illusion, Man)
"Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Mother, Kings, Man)
"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Career, Effort)
"In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Man, Past, Years)
"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Circumstances, Protection)
"There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Performance, Want)
"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, First, Rights, Speech, Want)
"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Information, Public, states)
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Humanity, Nothing)
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Survival, Humanity, Will)
"Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work, People, Acting, Help, Manipulation)
"There's nothing more human than two people making love."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Nothing)
"A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
- Lucius Accius
(Related: Death, Life, Disgrace, Man)
"Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous."
- Lucius Accius
(Related: Fame, Famous, Man)
"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Body, Cure, Forget)
"I keep reading between the lies."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Lies, Reading)
"TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Nothing, Words)
"Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Eating, Moon)
"I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one."
- Goodman Ace
"Politics makes estranged bedfellows."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Politics)
"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Money, Virtue, Career, First, Pleasure, Woman, Writer)
"It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Home, Marriage, Man, Risk)
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Man, Trouble)
"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Art, Effort, Man, Order, Reality)
"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: First)
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Attention, Ego, Man, Public)
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
- Dean Acheson
"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Father, Example)
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Life, End, Want)
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Country, End, Lies, Mystery, Will)
"Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret."
- Diane Ackerman
"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Childhood, Mountains, Nothing, Summer)
"Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight."
- Diane Ackerman
"Success produces success, just as money produces money."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Money, Success)
"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Lie, Emotions, Language, Moods)
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Love)
"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Life, Want)
"We live on the leash of our senses."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Senses)
"I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Family, Thought, Decision, Congress, Debate)
"I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Rules)
"If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: America, Democracy, Freedom, Risk)
"India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Power)
"No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Vote)
"Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: People, Pride)
"We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Congress)
"We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: America, Rules, World)
"I am always fascinated by India."
- Gary Ackerman
"When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Friends, School)
"What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Life, People, Acting, Meeting)
"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."
- John Acton
(Related: Knowledge, Burden, Past)
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
- John Acton
(Related: Authority, Custom, Duty, Influence, Liberty, Man, Opinion)
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Society, Morality, Consequences, Evil, Man, Misfortune, Poor, Property, Right)
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Money, Artist)
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Faith, Government, Profession, Public, Teaching)
"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Change, Eternity, Laws, Manners, Opinions)
"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Authority, Country, Duty, Man, Right, Spirit, State)
"I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere."
- Roy Acuff
(Related: Man)
"I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery."
- Red Adair
(Related: Home, Friends)
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Life, Action, Man)
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Actions, Words)
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Power, Grave, Man)
"Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Life, Gold, Man)
"I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Success, Importance, Mission, Press)
"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Failure, Diplomacy, Public)
"Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Government, Fear, Attitude, Press, Suspicion, Workers)
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Negative, Performance)
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Nature, Humanity)
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Men, Confidence, Emotions, Man, Perceptions, Right, Spirit)
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Negative, Performance)
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Men, Creation, Fight, Force, Originality, Spirit)
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Life, Spirit, Universe)
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Art, Experience, Nature, History, Science, Man, Moods, Spirit, World)
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Friendship, Life, Thought, Community, Needs, Rivalry)
"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Life, Consequences, Trying)
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Experience, Ability, Remarkable)
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Age, Life, Day, Man)
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Time, Experience, People, Conviction, Country, Fool, Politicians, Trouble)
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Successful, Applause, Care, Encouragement, Famous, Man, May, Woman)
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Man)
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Battle, Day, Deals, Eyes, Rights, Human rights, Key, Open, Patience, Republican, Will)
"One man's transparency is another's humiliation."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Man)
"Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God."
- Henry Adams
(Related: God, Man, Trying)
"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Grave, Man)
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Simplicity)
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: American, President, Sea)
"The proper study of mankind is woman."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Mankind, Study, Woman)
"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Woman, Wrong)
"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Friendship, Life, Thought, Community, Needs, Rivalry)
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Years)
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Nature, Dream, Chaos, Law, Man, Order)
"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Education, Nature, Knowledge, Beginning, End, Human nature)
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Thought, Man, Words)
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Intelligence, Beginning)
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Faith, Intelligence, Man)
"Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Heart, Divinity, Effort, Lies, Man, Woman)
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Science, Power, Day, Existence, Mankind, May, Race, Suicide, World)
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Friend)
"A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Belief, Man, Now)
"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Class, First)
"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Business, Advertising, Earth, Man, Reason)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Life, Attitude, Discovery, Man, Mind)
"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Care, Freedom, Now, Worry)
"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."
- John Adams
(Related: Liberty, Mankind, Property, Right)
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
- John Adams
(Related: Design, America, Earth, Mankind, Providence, Wonder)
"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
- John Adams
(Related: Politics, Woman, Word)
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Power, Trust, Danger, Liberty, Living, Man, Maxim, Public)
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
- John Adams
(Related: Mankind, Service)
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
- John Adams
(Related: Power, Society, Character, Authority, Importance)
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
- John Adams
(Related: Imagination, Country, Invention, Man, Office)
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
- John Adams
(Related: Law, Laws, Support)
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."
- John Adams
(Related: Heart, Desire, Man)
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Courage, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles)
"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Successful, Day, Succeed)
"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Trying)
"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Feeling, Proof, Winter)
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Science, Religion, Heart, Belief, Atoms, Lies, Novelty, Popular, Radical, Rejection, Stars)
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Nature, Power, Authority, Earth, Law, Liberty, Man, Will)
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Earth, Liberty, Mankind, Religious)
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Feelings, Mankind, Reason)
"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Life, Country, Feeling, Man, Will)
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Life, First, Rights, Liberty, Property)
"We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal."
- Samuel Hopkins Adams
(Related: Time, Sympathy, Living)
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Religion, Dating, Nothing, Pursuit)
"Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience."
- Will Adams
(Related: Wife, Heart, Being, Children, Christ, Conscience, Grief, Name, Poor)
"At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other."
- Will Adams
(Related: Time, People, Being, Boats, Harm, Understanding)
"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
- Joy Adamson
(Related: Responsibility)
"To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Amusement, Man, Pleasure)
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Glory, Man)
"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Father, Man, Misery, Motive, Will)
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Friendship, Enjoyment)
"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Man, Question, Will, Yield)
"The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Knowledge, Man, Nothing)
"The woman that deliberates is lost."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Woman)
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity)
"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Life, Calamity, Grief, Humanity, Treatment)
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Heart, Laughter, Man, May, Mirth)
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man, Sense, Words)
"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Age, Censure, Folly, Man, Persecution, Weakness, World)
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Absurdity, Man, Talking, Will)
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wedding, Advice, Clothes, Woman)
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man)
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Truth, Virtue, Man)
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Talent, Eloquence, Man, Modesty)
"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man, Mind, World)
"A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Blessings, Day, Influence)
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Courage, Constitution, Duty, Man, Sense)
"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Power, Man, Mind, Nothing)
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Flowers, Humanity, Smiles, Trifles)
"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Greatness, Country, Heaven, Man, Wrath)
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Inconsistency, Temper, Weakness)
"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Change, Men, Nature, Climate, Common sense, Fool, Man, May)
"One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach."
- George Ade
(Related: Ivy, Man, Poison)
"A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words."
- George Ade
(Related: Man, Words)
"My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Impression, Performance, Confidence, First)
"I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions."
- Sheldon Adelson
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: Intelligence, God, Fact, Man, Stupidity)
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: Body, Tongue)
"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, People, Support, Zone)
"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."
- Kate Adie
(Related: People, Heart, Job)
"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Marriage, Time, Church, England, Girls, School, University, Woman)
"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Order, Risk)
"To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: People, Attention, Needs)
"I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness."
- Isabelle Adjani
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Death, People, Progress, Humanity)
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Nature, Peace, Science, Soul, Goal, Being, Human nature, Mind, Understanding)
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Love, Law, Man, Mankind, Years)
"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: War, Cooperation)
"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Being, Conquest, Feeling)
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Politics, War, Community, Man)
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Lie, Country, Duty, Man)
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: God, Soul, Goal, Cosmos, Man, Perfection, Stars)
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Life, Danger, May)
"Man knows much more than he understands."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Man)
"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Thought, Progress, Diversity, Freedom, Intellect, Man, Right, Will)
"The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole."
- Felix Adler
"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Desire, Gain, Possession, World)
"Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Country, Woman)
"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Power, Church, Numbers, Today)
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Consideration, Custom, Force, Interest, Meeting, Public)
"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Change, Heart, Conformity, Contradiction, Laws, Man, Needs, Order)
"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Law, Man, Woman)
"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Experience, Perceptions)
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Books)
"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Choice, Interest, Man, Woman)
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Men, Freedom)
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Earth, Justice)
"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Education, Happiness, Life, End, Enjoyment, Possession, Satisfaction)
"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Care, Difference, Justice, World)
"No emancipation without that of society."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society)
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Death, People, Humanity)
"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Harm, Man, Spirit)
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, Man, Tomorrow, Waiting, Yesterday)
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Being)
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Power, Being, Man, Rules)
"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Man, Writing)
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society, State)
"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Lie)
"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: People)
"Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Countries, Country, Fate, World)
"It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Meaning, Past, Population)
"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Foreigners)
"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Difficulties, Past, Years)
"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Age, Time)
"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Gods, Man, Misfortune)
"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Wealth, Defense, Excess, Justice, Man, Sight)
"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Death, Children, Fame, Man)
"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Destiny, Man)
"Call no man happy till he is dead."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Deeds, Evil, Man, Profit, Shame, Will, Word)
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Decency, Man, Mind)
"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Man)
"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Misery, Silence, Speech)
"The man who does ill must suffer ill."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Authority, Man)
"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trouble)
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Haste, Man)
"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Man)
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Concern, Man, Woman)
"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Life, End, Man, Prosperity)
"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man, Self)
"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Experience, Fate, Force, Friends, Man, Will)
"Know not to revere human things too much."
- Aeschylus
"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Love, Nature, Man, Right, Woman)
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
(Related: Trust, Advice, Difficulties, Man)
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
- Aesop
(Related: Friend, Enemy, Man)
"When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Time, Job)
"There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Being, Poor, Romantic)
"I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Hope, Feeling, Fun, May, Woman)
"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Body, Ladies, Man, Now, Popular, Pretty, Thinking)
"When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Idea, Performance, Actor, Expression, Trying)
"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."
- John Agar
(Related: America, First, Man)
"Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: People, World, Years)
"I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Thought, Past, Perspective)
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
- James Agate
(Related: Management, Act, Fact, Theatre)
"I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all."
- Spiro T. Agnew
"I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all."
- Spiro T. Agnew
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: People, American, Choice)
"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: Man)
"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Nature, Soul, First, Letters)
"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."
- Shmuel Y. Agnon
(Related: Man, Name)
"My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Mom, Brother)
"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Money, God, People, Company, Hearing, Religious, Spiritual)
"Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: People, Act, Want)
"I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it."
- Christina Aguilera
"I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Hope, Reason, Woman)
"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Life, Nature, Enthusiasm, Energy, Woman)
"But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of."
- Jenny Agutter
(Related: Care, Film, Man, Needs, Woman)
"The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Power, Friend, Country, Force, Rights, Nations, states, United)
"For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Culture, World, Years)
"In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world."
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Related: Job, Opinion, World)
"They had always told me that I wrote like a man."
- Ama Ata Aidoo
(Related: Man)
"And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on."
- Clay Aiken
(Related: Success)
"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself."
- Howard Aiken
(Related: Science, Time, Arithmetic, Desire, Effort, Error, Old)
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
- Leo Aikman
"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."
- Leo Aikman
(Related: Habit)
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
- Leo Aikman
"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Work, Quality, Trying, World)
"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Woman, World)
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Impression, Man)
"There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Government, Talent, Crisis, Losing, Public)
"It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Financial, Credit, Debt, Decisions, May)
"The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise."
- Mark Akenside
(Related: Disguise, Forget, Lies, Man)
"This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire."
- Mark Akenside
(Related: Experience, Life, Genius, Mankind, Now, Passion, Shakespeare, Will, Yield)
"I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Life, Popular, School)
"Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Women, Moods)
"Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Animals, Interest)
"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Being, Favorite)
"Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week."
- Malin Akerman
"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"
- Malin Akerman
(Related: American, First, Months, Past, Play, Song)
"I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Body, Growing up)
"I can't walk by chocolate without eating it."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Eating)
"Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky."
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Hate)
"I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'"
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Girls, Pretty, Want)
"Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Life, Action, Boldness, Honor)
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Wisdom, Folly, Fool, Ignorance, Man, Mind)
"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Power, Virtue, Heaven, Influence, Modesty, Stars, Woman)
"Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life."
- Akhenaton
(Related: Life, Heart, Maxims, Prudence, Words)
"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."
- Anna Akhmatova
(Related: Death, Heart, Concern, Will, Woman)
"Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity."
- Masami Akita
(Related: Culture, Humanity)
"It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Country, Iraq)
"The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Being, Enjoyment, Listening, Man, Wrong)
"You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Nothing)
"As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Man)
"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Audiences, Difference)
"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Time, Interest, Man, Name)
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Art, Science, Soul, Appreciation, Behavior, Energy, Fashion, Now, Today)
"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Aesthetics, Ethics, Man, May)
"Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets."
- Josef Albers
(Related: Work, First, Secrets, Sense, Years)
"In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career."
- Edward Albert
(Related: Age, Work, Career, Countries, Film, Months)
"A man can do all things if he but wills them."
- Leon Battista Alberti
(Related: Man)
"Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Food, Behavior, Benefits, Cooking, Musicians)
"The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Dating, Woman)
"There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently."
- Steve Albini
(Related: Quality, Fashion, Sound, Will)
"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."
- Mitch Albom
(Related: Dying, End, Man, Sun)
"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."
- Madeleine Albright
(Related: American, Rights, Human rights, Principles)
"Wine is a peep-hole on a man."
- Alcaeus
(Related: Man, Wine)
"'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old."
- Alcaeus
(Related: Man, Old, Wrath)
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Success)
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: First, Man, Will)
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Life, Thought, Man, Sense, Thinking)
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
(Related: Mankind)
"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Fun, Girls, Man)
"She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Character, Clothes, Influence, Instinct, Magic, Manners, Worth)
"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Women, Help, Opinion, Question, Right, Will, Woman)
"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
- Louisa May Alcott
(Related: Power, Talent, Genius, Charm, Conceit, Danger, Gifts, Goodness, Modesty, Will)
"Man thinks, God directs."
- Alcuin
(Related: God, Man)
"I've never tried to manipulate my image."
- Alan Alda
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Being, Existence, Goodness, Man, Woman, World)
"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."
- Brian Aldiss
(Related: Civilization, Man)
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: First, Man)
"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Man)
"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(Related: Company, Man, Mind)
"I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime."
- Buzz Aldrin
(Related: Will)
"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."
- Sholom Aleichem
(Related: Work, Direction, Man)
"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Beauty, Chess)
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
- Alexander Alekhine
(Related: Happiness, Life, Purpose, Man, Sense)
"I made my choice to be in Ferrari. It is not easy because it is important for a man to have satisfaction. And for me to get the satisfaction I want means getting results."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Choice, Man, Results, Satisfaction, Want)
"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Life, Nature, Feeling)
"But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Heart, Grandparents)
"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
- Jason Alexander
(Related: Life, Actors, Manners, Play)
"There are many great truths which we do not deny, and which nevertheless we do not fully believe."
- Joshua Willis Alexander
"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Music, People, Beliefs, State)
"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Americans)
"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: War, Iraq, Nation, President, Republicans, Support, Wonder)
"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: People, Achievement, Country, Diversity, Unity, Variety, World)
"Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Friends, Shakespeare, Teachers)
"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: War, Germany, Paris)
"Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: People, Feelings, Relationships, World)
"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Concern)
"After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Family, Jobs, Support, Writing, Years)
"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Being, Difficulty, Man, Medicine)
"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Enemy, Man, Woman)
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
- Shana Alexander
(Related: Evolution, Man)
"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Dream)
"All art is exploitation."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Art, Exploitation)
"All I owe the world is my art."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Art, World)
"If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Time, Poems, Writing)
"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."
- Sherman Alexie
(Related: Purpose, Authority, Children)
"I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal."
- Mohamed Al-Fayed
(Related: Life, God, Earth)
"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."
- Vittorio Alfieri
(Related: Happiness, Care, Crime, Heaven, Man)
"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
- Vittorio Alfieri
(Related: Crime)
"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Legal, Challenge, Conscience, Humanity, Literature)
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Mom, Cards, Man, Play, Sleep, Woman)
"The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Man, Necessity, Responsibility, Writer)
"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Love, Man, Meaning, Risk, Today, Unworthy)
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
- Nelson Algren
(Related: Chicago, Woman)
"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Peace, Man, World)
"I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: People, Man)
"To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Will)
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Imagination, Man)
"Superman don't need no seat belt."
- Muhammad Ali
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Power, Soul, Man)
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Life, Man, World, Years)
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Life, Man, World, Years)
"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Man, Stairs, Taste)
"When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket."
- J Allard
(Related: Performance, Hardware)
"Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Dreams, American, Americans, Festivities, Generations, Hardship, Pursuit, Racism)
"Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Health, Life, Blood, Public)
"We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe."
- Iyad Allawi
(Related: State)
"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
- Charles M. Allen
(Related: Technology, Hell, Help, Race)
"The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same."
- Charles M. Allen
(Related: Motives)
"It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Movies, Man, Sound, Style)
"The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Time, Body, Clothes, Today, Woman)
"Time management is a big part of the director's job."
- Debbie Allen
(Related: Time, Management, Job)
"It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home."
- Florence E. Allen
(Related: Home, Being, Congress, Help, Woman, Worth)
"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Race)
"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Gentleman, Woman)
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Man)
"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested."
- Hervey Allen
(Related: Civilization, Aristocracy)
"In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized."
- Hervey Allen
(Related: First)
"We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did."
- Ivan Allen
(Related: Cities, Mistakes)
"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
- James Allen
(Related: Quality, Courage, Honor, Man, Mind, Will, Woman, World)
"The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat."
- James Allen
(Related: God, Thoughts, Deeds, Harvest, Man, Will, Wrong)
"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
- James Allen
(Related: Power, Wisdom, Success, Influence, Jewels, Man, Mind)
"The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it."
- James Allen
(Related: Nature, Man, Meditation, Practice, Will)
"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."
- James Allen
(Related: Heart, Man, Temptation)
"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result."
- James Allen
(Related: Strength, Effort, Measure, Result, Results)
"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation."
- James Allen
(Related: Intelligence, Love, Power, Thoughts, Being, Choice, Key, Man, Right)
"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."
- James Allen
(Related: Life, People, Thoughts, Man, Will)
"The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth."
- James Allen
(Related: Truth, Errors, Man)
"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed."
- James Allen
(Related: Flowers, Humanity, Poverty)
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
- James Allen
(Related: Circumstances, Man)
"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself."
- James Allen
(Related: Truth, People, Guidance, Man)
"A man is literally what he thinks."
- James Allen
(Related: Man)
"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."
- James Allen
(Related: Happiness, Health, Being, Man, Prosperity, Result)
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."
- James Allen
(Related: Life, Soul, Man)
"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Thoughts, Man, Result)
"A man is literally what he thinks."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Man)
"Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Circumstances, Man)
"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Quality, Courage, Honor, Man, Mind, Will, Woman, World)
"That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible."
- Marcus Allen
(Related: Experience, Being, Fact, Rest, World)
"If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path."
- Marty Allen
(Related: Money, Girls, Man)
"The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward."
- Paul Allen
(Related: Being, Care, Humanity)
"We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Society, Americans, Habits, Manners)
"The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Law, Responsibility)
"The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Policy, Successful, Democrats, National security)
"The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Leader, Management, Objectives, President, Will)
"Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Failure, Harm, Hesitation, Indecision, Interest, Office, State, Will)
"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Home, Time, America, Land, Vote)
"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."
- Robert G. Allen
(Related: Dream, Wealth, Attention, Man, Opinions, Succeed)
"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case."
- Robert G. Allen
(Related: Rest)
"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist."
- Robert G. Allen
(Related: Buying)
"The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Love, Truth, Holiness, Man, Spirit)
"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."
- Steve Allen
(Related: Problems)
"Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me."
- Tim Allen
(Related: Trust, End, Woman, Words)
"Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Work, Hope, Ability)
"Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Policy, Research)
"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Food, Man)
"Tradition is the illusion of permanance."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Illusion, Tradition)
"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Body, Fun, Man, Mind)
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
- Woody Allen
(Related: Life, Death, Evening)
"Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done."
- George Allen, Sr.
(Related: Today, Tomorrow, Want)
"When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries."
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Saying, Weight)
"I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!"
- Kirstie Alley
(Related: Man, May, Passion)
"As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness."
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
(Related: People, Belief, Kindness, Result)
"It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes."
- Svetlana Alliluyeva
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Rules, World)
"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Blood, Man, Police, Remarkable)
"If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Attention)
"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Mourning)
"I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity."
- William Allingham
(Related: Life, Gravity, Trifles)
"If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me."
- William Allingham
(Related: Hope, Man, Will)
"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Romance, Sister, Books, Growing up, Horror)
"I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Music, People, Management, Company, Name, Now)
"I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not."
- Luther Allison
(Related: Musicians)
"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Technology, Law, Property)
"This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Technology, People, First, Want)
"Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Time, Work, Company, Founding)
"I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Food, Wine)
"I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Fighting, Trying, Weight)
"You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Love, Movies, Pretty)
"When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Thought, Play, School)
"The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Competition)
"Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Road)
"The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece."
- Gregg Allman
"I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: People, First, Songs)
"Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Brother, Thought, Play, World)
"I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Money, Music)
"I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Now)
"I got tired of playing other people's songs."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: People, Songs)
"At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Time, Thought, First, Guitar, Song, Tribute)
"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."
- Gordon W. Allport
(Related: Life, Laughter)
"Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction."
- Aaron Allston
(Related: God, People, Feminism, Satisfaction)
"The way to a man's heart is through his chest."
- Aaron Allston
(Related: Heart, Man)
"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
- Washington Allston
(Related: Competition, Man)
"So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting."
- June Allyson
(Related: Music, Friend, Husbands, Study, Talk, Wives)
"I'm not a career woman."
- June Allyson
(Related: Career, Woman)
"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
- Pedro Almodovar
(Related: Film)
"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: People, American, End, Now)
"The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
(Related: Fish, Past)
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
- Stewart Alsop
(Related: Time, Dying, Man, Needs, Sleep, Wrong)
"More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager."
- Walt Alston
(Related: Manager)
"I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker."
- Carol Alt
(Related: Thought, Woman)
"Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda."
- Eric Alterman
(Related: Policy, Control, Force, Foreign policy, Public, Struggle)
"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence."
- Louis Althusser
(Related: Men, Society, Existence, Ideology)
"I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit."
- Summer Altice
(Related: Life, Man, Spirit, Want)
"If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France."
- Robert Altman
(Related: France, President)
"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."
- Robert Altman
(Related: People, Minority)
"Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Men, Women, Clothes)
"Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Humor, People, Values, Chance, Emotions)
"If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down."
- Robert Altman
"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Chance)
"It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters."
- Robert Altman
(Related: Film)
"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Work, Hard work, Yield)
"We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Hope, United, Will)
"By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Life, Time, Father, College, School)
"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Life, Earth, World)
"We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Work)
"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Importance, Old, Scientists)
"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Science)
"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Technology, Events, Intention, Physics, Study, University)
"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Son, Poor)
"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Months, Physics, University, Waiting)
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Research)
"Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Months, Physics, Summer)
"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Power, Time, Elegance, First, Theory, Years)
"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Family, Opportunity, Canada, Land, Relatives)
"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Government, Nature, Time, Opportunity, Thoughts, Land, Study)
"I never met a man I didn't want to fight."
- Lyle Alzado
(Related: Fight, Man, Want)
"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: News, Profit, Running)
"What we do and say and show really matters."
- Christiane Amanpour
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Acquaintance, Now, Order, Soldiers, Will)
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Children)
"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Society, Fact, Play, Russia, states)
"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Democracy, Press, Reform)
"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Children, Conviction, Passion)
"Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league."
- Christiane Amanpour
"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Being, Day, Honor, News, Tradition)
"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Responsibility)
"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Money, Technology, Time, Talent, People)
"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Force, Journalism)
"We do it because we're committed, because we're believers."
- Christiane Amanpour
"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: American, News)
"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Leadership, Power, Press)
"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Fear)
"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Mistake, Revolution, World)
"For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?"
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Country, Crime, Leading, Murder)
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Journalism, Television, World)
"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Respect)
"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Business, Journalism)
"And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story."
- Christiane Amanpour
"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: People, Will)
"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Years)
"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Country, Self, states, United, World)
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Trust, People, Profession, states, United)
"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: End, Events, Living)
"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: War, Past, Years, Zone)
"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Family, Love, Admiration, Company, Past, Respect, Years)
"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: War, Passion, Planning, Road)
"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Tea)
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: People, American, Respect)
"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Thought, People)
"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Experience, Job, Light, Network)
"China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand."
- Mukesh Ambani
(Related: Will)
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Life, Society, Development, Being, Identity, Man, Ocean, Self, Water)
"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Government, Society, Man, Nothing, Tyranny)
"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Society, Man)
"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Class, Country, Man)
"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
- B. R. Ambedkar
(Related: Existence, Mind)
"International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood."
- Eric Ambler
(Related: Business, Blood, May)
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
- Saint Ambrose
(Related: Rome)
"Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of."
- Stephen Ambrose
"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Editors, Want, Writers)
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Power, Man, Will, World)
"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Government, Job, Party, Vietnam)
"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Disgrace, states, United)
"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Man)
"Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much."
- Alejandro Amenabar
(Related: Music)
"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."
- John Amery
(Related: Germany, World)
"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization."
- John Amery
(Related: Civilization, Being, Crime)
"Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward."
- John Amery
(Related: Will, Wonder)
"It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests."
- John Amery
(Related: Thought, People, Acting, England, London, Russia)
"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Science, National security, State, Weapons)
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: American, Effort)
"You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Desperation, Man)
"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Intelligence, People, Existence, Result, Results)
"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Compromise, Defense, Loss, Names)
"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Names)
"The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away."
- Fisher Ames
(Related: Gentleman, Mind, Old)
"Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image."
- William Ames
(Related: Change, God, Man, Purity, Sin)
"In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature."
- William Ames
(Related: Nature, God, Efficiency, Exercise, First)
"An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Idea, First, Man)
"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Soul, Body, First, Grace, Man, Obedience, Will)
"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Being)
"A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration."
- Edmondo De Amicis
(Related: Inspiration, Woman)
"Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Society, Will)
"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Soul, Emotion, Self, Symbol, Tears)
"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Man)
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Life, Man, Regret)
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Man, Religious)
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Intelligence, Heart, Man)
"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Affection, Past, Woman)
"It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Man, Worth)
"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Survival, Humanity, Self)
"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Family, Destiny, Destruction, Salvation, Woman)
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Possibility, Force, Man, Passion)
"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."
- Kingsley Amis
(Related: Man, Trying)
"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Poetry, Class, First, Poems, Reading, Teaching)
"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Purpose, Man, Past, Reason)
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
- Cleveland Amory
(Related: Time, Cats, Limitations, Patience)
"Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred."
- Tori Amos
(Related: People)
"I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Lonely)
"In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."
- Tori Amos
(Related: Love, Trust, Kids, Lust, Man)
"I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it."
- Wally Amos
(Related: First, Want)
"Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write."
- Wally Amos
(Related: Crime)
"Simply, there are many things I would like to do."
- Namie Amuro
"I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Managers)
"Every man is his own chief enemy."
- Anacharsis
(Related: Enemy, Man)
"Our responsibility as privileged human beings is to pay back for the opportunities we've received."
- Kathryn Anastos
(Related: Responsibility)
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life, God, Man)
"Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Fight, Sky)
"You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line."
- Bob Anderson
(Related: Manager, Opportunity)
"I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: People, Career, Years)
"The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave."
- Cora Anderson
(Related: Work, Woman)
"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy."
- Dave Anderson
(Related: Americans, Understanding)
"We support President Truman's civil rights program."
- Eugenie Anderson
(Related: Civil rights, President, Support)
"It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent."
- Eugenie Anderson
(Related: People, Guest, Memories, Sharing, Words, Years)
"I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it."
- Gillian Anderson
(Related: Change, Life, People, Regret, Relationships, Want)
"I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it."
- John Anderson
(Related: Wealth, Being, Economy, Jobs, Understanding)
"I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations."
- Judith Anderson
(Related: Life)
"There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart."
- Judith Anderson
(Related: Life, Heart, Man, Nothing, Woman)
"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Fact, May, Universe)
"Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Letters, Words)
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Romance, Literature)
"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Want)
"Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Art, Performance, Joy, Words)
"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Performance)
"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Artist, First, Woman)
"They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Right, Road)
"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Mom, Fashion, Memory, Wine, Woman)
"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Movies, Romantic)
"I am the odd man out in the family."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Family, Man)
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
- Margaret Anderson
(Related: Love, Romantic, Want)
"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Fear, Disease, Logic, Man)
"I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Time, People, Years)
"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: First, Right, Waiting)
"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Open, Word)
"Prayer begins where human capacity ends."
- Marian Anderson
(Related: Prayer)
"It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Life, Children, Man)
"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
- Philip Warren Anderson
(Related: Fact, First, Months)
"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."
- Poul Anderson
(Related: Harvest, Machine, Personality, Stars, Will)
"I expect we will become more demanding as citizens."
- Robert Anderson
(Related: Will)
"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
- Robert Anderson
(Related: Heart, Conviction, Man, Measure, Mission, Passion, Play, Will)
"That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Truth, Thoughts, Beginning, Man, World)
"My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Work, Idea, Giving)
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager)
"The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Respect, Rules)
"I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?"
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Boston)
"A baseball manager is a necessary evil."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Manager, Baseball, Evil)
"Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success."
- Sparky Anderson
(Related: Success, Manager, Baseball, Mind, Right)
"And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving."
- Wes Anderson
"As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander."
- John Andre
(Related: Death, Life, Country, Disgrace)
"There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them."
- Marc Andreessen
(Related: Time, Balance, Trying)
"I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do."
- Ursula Andress
(Related: Time, Age)
"And when we go from braking to accelerating to cornering, the G-forces we pull are really demanding on our bodies. We definitely have to be in top shape."
- Michael Andretti
"I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was black."
- John Albion Andrew
(Related: Man, Sin, World)
"Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed."
- Prince Andrew
(Related: Family, Funny, Friends, Queen, Question)
"It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form."
- Prince Andrew
(Related: People, Idea, State)
"I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on."
- Julie Andrews
(Related: Work, Money, Authority, Woman)
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
- Ivo Andric
(Related: Man, Nothing)
"One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them."
- Ivo Andric
"Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants."
- Yuri Andropov
(Related: War, Earth, Man, Trying, Will)
"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live."
- Ethel Percy Andrus
(Related: Giving)
"So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Life, Being, Career, Reality)
"Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German."
- Victoria de los Angeles
"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Reality, Understanding)
"I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Ladies, Imitation, Tradition, Traditions)
"I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer."
- Victoria de los Angeles
(Related: Nothing)
"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Life, Purpose, Drama, Earth, Meaning, Pain, Sense)
"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Time, Women, Feeling, Man, Thinking)
"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
- Barbara de Angelis
(Related: Experience, Time, Body, Order, Spiritual, Spirituality)
"The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon."
- Norman Angell
(Related: Men, Man, Service)
"Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible."
- Norman Angell
(Related: Peace, Nation, Nations)
"Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making."
- Norman Angell
(Related: People)
"God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself."
- Norman Angell
(Related: God, Canada, Nations)
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Meaning, Voice, Words)
"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Technology, Quality, Humanity, Rest, World)
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: May)
"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Truth, Fact, Man, Present)
"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Home, Being)
"I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people."
- Kenneth Anger
(Related: Legal, People, Censorship, Living, May, Publishing, Want)
"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy."
- Gennaro Angiulo
(Related: Leadership, Man, Mercy, Right)
"There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process."
- Kurt Angle
(Related: Americans)
"You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Faith, God, Purpose, Christian)
"And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Government, God, Country, First, Protection)
"I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Flowers, Man)
"In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Friend, Man)
"The best smell in the world is that man that you love."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Love, Man, World)
"For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels."
- Paul Anka
(Related: Man, Words)
"When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Play, Years)
"I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Regret)
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Peace, African, Leaders, Troops)
"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: History, Destiny, Friends, Nations, United)
"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Religion, Life, Awareness, Dignity, Mission, Nations, Race, United, Will)
"The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Being, Nations, states, United, World, Worth)
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Education, Power, Development, Democracy, Freedom, Rest, Right)
"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Calculations, Profit)
"My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach."
- Kojo Annan
(Related: Father, Character, Integrity, Man, Nations, United, Years)
"What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?"
- Kojo Annan
(Related: Father, Rest, Senators, Will, World)
"Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Work, Money, People, Interest)
"Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life."
- Walter Annenberg
(Related: Life, Participation, Play, Training, Will)
"Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Wife)
"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Strength, World)
"Every man thinks god is on his side."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: God, Man)
"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Man, Sight, Ugly)
"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."
- Jean Anouilh
(Related: Death, Courage, Day, Man)
"People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me."
- Adam Ant
(Related: Time, People, Buying, Company, Want, Wrong)
"I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face."
- Adam Ant
(Related: Women, Life, Woman)
"The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?"
- Katharine Anthony
(Related: History, Romance, Truth, Lovers, Satisfaction)
"No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects."
- Piers Anthony
"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: First)
"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Hope, Being, EnglFantasy, Light, Obvious, Trouble, Waiting, Writers)
"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Man, Protection, Woman)
"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: People, Being, Destiny, Lies, Nation, states, United, Woman)
"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Progress, Invention, Law, Today, Woman)
"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Man, Woman)
"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Trust, Help, Law, Will, Woman)
"Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives."
- David Antin
(Related: Time)
"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."
- David Antin
(Related: Lie, Man, Myth, Name)
"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
- David Antin
(Related: Idea, Disney, Fortune)
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
- David Antin
(Related: Prose)
"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Tribute)
"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Father, People)
"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Love, Health, Positive, Honor, Police, Prayer)
"Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer."
- Susan Anton
(Related: May, Woman)
"When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Nature, Man, Meaning, Space, Will, Words)
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Living, Man, Moon)
"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
- Michelangelo Antonioni
(Related: Society, Feelings, Earth, Man, Prophecy, Saying, Sound, Want)
"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Truth, Compliment, Woman)
"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Truth, Friend, Woman)
"Man proposes, woman forecloses."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Man, Woman)
"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Women)
"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Man, Woman)
"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Soul, Eye, Understanding, Woman)
"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him."
- Minna Antrim
(Related: Man, Wit, Woman)
"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Men, Artists, Want)
"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
(Related: Machine, Man)
"People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them."
- Aharon Appelfeld
(Related: Love, People, Parents)
"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him."
- Aharon Appelfeld
(Related: People, Biography, Deep, End, Israel, Metaphor, Writing)
"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Children)
"Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents."
- R. W. Apple, Jr.
(Related: Success, War, Greatness)
"They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances."
- Shiri Appleby
(Related: Fans, Interest, Questions)
"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."
- Shiri Appleby
(Related: Movies)
"The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries."
- Shiri Appleby
(Related: People, Countries, Questions)
"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."
- Stuart Appleby
(Related: World)
"I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away."
- Stuart Appleby
"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Manager, Mother, Friends, Relationships)
"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Fact, Relationships)
"A Boston man is the east wind made flesh."
- Thomas Gold Appleton
(Related: Boston, Man, Wind)
"Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Music, Work, Financial, Rights)
"It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis."
- Michael Apted
(Related: History, Machines, Miracles)
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Circumstances, Justice, Man, Mind, Rectitude)
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: God, Man, Prayer, Will)
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Reason, Salvation)
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Man, Will)
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Life, Actions, Being, Direction)
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Desire, Salvation)
"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Hesitation, Man, Possession)
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Joy, Man, Spiritual)
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: God, Man, Reason, World)
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Mind)
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Power, Nature, Sex, Production, Woman)
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: People)
"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Choice, Man)
"You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: People, Freedom, Help, Treasure)
"It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Life, Christ, Man, Pity, Self, Suffering, Woman)
"I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Thought, People, Books, Footsteps, Grammar, Logic, Rules, Style, Will)
"Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work."
- Louis Aragon
(Related: Imagination, Men, Work, Fear, Ideas, Control, Error, Reason, Senses)
"The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Love, Behavior, Conscience, Result)
"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
- Sergio Aragones
(Related: Love, Reason, Will)
"Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless."
- Joan of Arc
(Related: God, Daughter, Fathers, Mothers)
"Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds."
- Anne Archer
(Related: Business, Actors, Instinct, Managers)
"Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Success, Mistakes, Will)
"We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Truth, Being, Country, Drugs)
"I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Attitude, Prison)
"But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot."
- Jeffrey Archer
(Related: Mistakes, Prison, Regret, Remarkable, Years)
"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."
- Elizabeth Arden
(Related: Right, Woman)
"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Happiness, Men, Desire, End, Living, Sense)
"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Life, Abundance)
"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Being, Man, Speech)
"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Successful, Freedom, Man, Necessity)
"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: History, Nature, Act, Appearance, Mankind, Past)
"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Death, Life)
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Future, Promises)
"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
- Hannah Arendt
(Related: Earth)
"What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition."
- Asia Argento
"Paradise is too perfect for humanity."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Paradise, Humanity)
"I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Man, Problems, Woman)
"But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place."
- Dario Argento
(Related: First, Right)
"I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story."
- Dario Argento
"In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Italy, Judges, Old)
"It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Competition)
"Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Age, Money, Women, People, Act, Fighting)
"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Family, People, Country, Help, Mankind, Nation, Respect, Wrong)
"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: Character, Man, Satisfaction)
"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: God, Soul, Christianity, Church, Difference, Errors, Humanity, Spiritual)
"The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: Change, Faith, Language)
"Man proposes, and God disposes."
- Ludovico Ariosto
(Related: God, Man)
"As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death."
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
(Related: Death, People, Suffering, Trying, Waiting)
"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Man)
"Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Breeding, Popular, Voice)
"Let each man exercise the art he knows."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Art, Exercise, Man)
"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Wisdom, Man, May)
"The wise learn many things from their enemies."
- Aristophanes
(Related: Enemies)
"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
- Aristotle
(Related: Friend, Man, Wishes, Wishing)
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
- Aristotle
(Related: Life, Accidents, Circumstances, Dignity, Grace, Man)
"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
- Aristotle
(Related: Time, Man, Praise, Right)
"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
- Aristotle
(Related: Character, Performance, Virtue, Actions)
"No one loves the man whom he fears."
- Aristotle
(Related: Man)
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
- Aristotle
(Related: Life, Danger, Man)
"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
- Aristotle
(Related: State)
"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
- Aristotle
(Related: Politics, Science, End, Man)
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
- Aristotle
(Related: Wisdom, Being, Choice, Excellence, Lying, Man, Reason, State)
"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
- Aristotle
(Related: Time, Day, Man, Summer)
"He who hath many friends hath none."
- Aristotle
(Related: Friends)
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
- Aristotle
(Related: Animals, Justice, Law, Man)
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
- Aristotle
(Related: Quality, Courage, First)
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Habit, Actions, Chance, Desire, Passion, Reason)
"Man is by nature a political animal."
- Aristotle
(Related: Nature, Man)
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
- Aristotle
(Related: Friend, Man, Wishes, Wishing)
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
- Aristotle
(Related: Dream, Hope, Man, Waking)
"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
- Aristotle
(Related: Fear, Being, Law)
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
- Aristotle
(Related: Affection, Woman)
"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Relationships, Years)
"They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Women, Country, Woman)
"It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Experience, People, Drinks, Existence, Pleasure, Want)
"People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Romance, People, Fault, Horror, Obsession, Paranoia)
"I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did."
- Alan Arkin
(Related: Age, People, Performance, World)
"I didn't have a happy childhood."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Childhood)
"Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: People, Fact, Popular, World)
"You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!"
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Day, Press, Public, Waiting, Will)
"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Design, Time, People, Virtue)
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Detail)
"I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Age, Love, Time, Living)
"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Years)
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Thought, Fashion)
"Jeans represent democracy in fashion."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Democracy, Fashion)
"Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Dreams, Idea, Fashion)
"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Quality, Difference, Fashion, Style)
"There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: People, Advertising)
"There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Ambition, Ego, Press)
"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Happiness, People, Feelings, Clothes, Confidence)
"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Women, People, Famous)
"One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Dancing, Song, Tribute)
"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Music, Romantic)
"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Discipline, Challenge, Want)
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: Change, Music, People, Sound, Years)
"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians."
- Joan Armatrading
(Related: People, Being, Influence, Musicians)
"Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults."
- Richard Armour
(Related: Marriage, Wife, HusbAttention, Children, Faults, Help)
"Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife."
- Richard Armour
(Related: Time, Life, Wife, First, Man)
"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world."
- Richard Armour
(Related: Man, World)
"No one's really happy anyway, it's not human."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
"I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard."
- Billie Joe Armstrong
(Related: Choice, Man, Old)
"It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay."
- Brody Armstrong
(Related: People, Opinions, Project)
"I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own."
- Dido Armstrong
(Related: Being, Woman)
"Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore."
- Dido Armstrong
(Related: Age, Woman)
"Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine."
- Dido Armstrong
(Related: Life, Nothing)
"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Death, Religion, Success, Christianity, Islam, Dying, Man)
"It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Nature, Eagles)
"Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Religion, Now)
"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Achievement, Humanity, Visions)
"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Circumstance, First)
"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Man, Mankind)
"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Nature, Soul, Being, Deep, Moon)
"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Men, Peace, Earth, First, July, Mankind, Moon)
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Waste)
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Running, Waste)
"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Desire, Man, Mystery, Wonder)
"The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood."
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
(Related: Blood, Land, Man)
"Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: God, Christ, Man, Poor, Righteousness)
"Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: God, Soul, Fear, Body, Man, May, Poison)
"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Life, Forbidden, Lust, Man, State)
"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Death, Virtue, Christian, Exercise, Man, Sin, Temptations, World)
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Day, End, Fate, Months)
"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Film, First, canal)
"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Difference, May, Property, State, states)
"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Cause, Today, Universe)
"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Nature, Time, Man, Order)
"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Mind, Order)
"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Nature, Science, Actions, Man, Order, State)
"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Art, Man, Order, State, World)
"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: First, Order, Senses)
"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: Art, Culture, Existence, Reflection, Style)
"Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison."
- Edwin Arnold
(Related: Man, Prison)
"The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Love, Instinct, Liberty, Light, Man)
"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Mind, Miracles)
"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Power, Creation, Literature, Man)
"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."
- Matthew Arnold
(Related: Nature, Control, Man, Mind, Play, Sons, Wind)
"Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Son, Earth, Mind, Stars, Sun)
"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Ability, Difference, Energy, Man)
"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."
- Raymond Aron
(Related: Enemies, Future)
"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Time)
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
- Jean Arp
(Related: Art, Mother, Man)
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation."
- Jean Arp
(Related: Life, Contemplation, Day, Humanity, Machines, Meditation, Silence, Will)
"Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Business, Job)
"Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Business, Economics, Public, Traveling)
"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Management, American, Company, Future, Today, Will)
"We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Financial)
"It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Women)
"Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way."
- Rosanna Arquette
(Related: Men, Film, Girls, Man, Want)
"My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II."
- Kenneth Joseph Arrow
(Related: War, Study, World, World war)
"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(Related: Power)
"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
- Antonin Artaud
(Related: Causes, Despair, Man, Right)
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
- Antonin Artaud
(Related: Life, Genius, People, Idea, Solution)
"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
- Antonin Artaud
(Related: Men, Literature, Want)
"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy."
- Bea Arthur
(Related: Actors, Being, Comedy)
"Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering."
- Owen Arthur
(Related: Help, Man, Sense)
"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know."
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
(Related: Change, Fish, Fishing, Now, Sea, Today, Want, Will)
"In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry."
- Roger Ascham
(Related: Time, Books, Chivalry, End, Fathers, Man, Nothing, Reading)
"He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him."
- Roger Ascham
(Related: Men, People, Judgment, Man, Tongue, Will)
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: People, Mind)
"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Women)
"I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then."
- Richie Ashburn
(Related: People, Baseball)
"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
- Paddy Ashdown
(Related: Home, War, Right)
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
- Arthur Ashe
(Related: Appearance, Clothes, Man, Manners)
"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."
- Elizabeth Ashley
(Related: Romance)
"Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark."
- William Henry Ashley
"Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Government, Sincerity)
"The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Country, Direction, Snow)
"I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Love, End, Months, Past)
"No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle."
- Henry F. Ashurst
(Related: Life, Man, Surrender)
"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Nature, Cruelty, Insult)
"And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Life, People, Belief, Man, Will)
"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Burden, Folly, Future, Humanity, Stars, Superstition)
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: War, Living, World, World war)
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Computer)
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: War, Living, World, World war)
"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
- Leon Askin
(Related: Germany)
"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."
- Leon Askin
(Related: Father, Years)
"That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem."
- Les Aspin
(Related: Resolution)
"I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!"
- John Aspinall
(Related: Day, Earth, Majority, Years)
"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature."
- Margot Asquith
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
- Margot Asquith
(Related: Men, War, Expression, Faces, Man)
"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Life, War, Quality, Iraq, Perceptions)
"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Quality, Act, Effort, Rights, Harm, Human rights, Lawyers, News, Publishing)
"In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Legal, People, Fighting, Laws, World)
"I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?"
- Armand Assante
(Related: Earth, Sin)
"I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Work, Theater, Years)
"You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Love, Being)
"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Economics)
"The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western."
- Armand Assante
"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Dream, Acting, Actor)
"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Work, May, Months)
"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Literature, Mediocrity)
"I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Fool)
"Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Acting)
"I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with."
- Armand Assante
(Related: People, Act, Intimacy, Want)
"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Acting, Profession)
"I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Idea, Being, Fun, Hollywood)
"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Life, Quiet)
"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Career)
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Film, Hollywood)
"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Time, Hollywood)
"I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy."
- Armand Assante
(Related: Home, Travel, Daughters, School, World)
"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Conscience, Man, Order)
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."
- Fred Astaire
(Related: Job, Kids, Learning, Manners, Today)
"I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there."
- Fred Astaire
(Related: Dancing, Man, Old, Want)
"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Principles, Public, Reason)
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"
- Mary Astell
(Related: Design, Husband, Poor, Woman)
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Truth, Thought, Knowledge, Accomplishment, Difficulties, Passion, Trouble, Will, Woman)
"How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?"
- Mary Astell
(Related: Sex, Wife, Man, Opinion, Respect)
"That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Heart, Man)
"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Love, Woman)
"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason."
- John Astin
(Related: Development, Deep, Enemy, Intuition, Reason, World)
"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy."
- John Astin
(Related: Performance, Struggle, Want)
"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."
- John Astin
(Related: Work, Bible)
"We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be."
- John Astin
(Related: Change, Greatness, Earth, Humanity, Race, Running, Will)
"Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!"
- Mackenzie Astin
"The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race."
- Francis William Aston
(Related: History, Science, Fact, Future, Importance, Possibilities, Race, Remarkable)
"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich."
- John Jacob Astor
(Related: Man)
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."
- Nancy Astor
(Related: Education, Humanity, Self)
"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."
- Nancy Astor
(Related: Time, Blame, Chance, First, Woman)
"My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from."
- Nancy Astor
(Related: Vitality, Woman)
"There is only one theology, but there are many theologians."
- Athenagoras I
(Related: Theology)
"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Beer, Grace)
"Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me."
- Christopher Atkins
"I'm really a romantic at heart."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Heart, Romantic)
"My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Population, Will)
"There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: People)
"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest."
- Rowan Atkinson
(Related: Man)
"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
- Rowan Atkinson
(Related: Life, Bizarre, Man)
"Nobody picks on a strong man."
- Charles Atlas
(Related: Man)
"I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man."
- Charles Atlas
(Related: Man)
"15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man."
- Charles Atlas
(Related: Man)
"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Life, Science, Man, Thinking, Trying, World)
"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Change, Politics, Success, Economics)
"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Film)
"Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Love, War, Performance, Cinema, Want)
"I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: Family, Life, Rights, Majority, Man, Order, Quotes, World)
"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands."
- Richard Attenborough
(Related: People, Performance, Film, Hesitation)
"My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything."
- Lee Atwater
(Related: Nature, Love, Truth, Brotherhood, Humanity, Illness, Relationships)
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: People, Hope, Race, Will)
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Love, Names, Snow)
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Water)
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Leader, Man, Woman)
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Canada, Illness, states, United)
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Silence, Speech, Voice)
"How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?"
- Rene Auberjonois
(Related: Running)
"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Happiness, Life, Being, Choices, Freedom, Humanity, Joy, Mistakes, Negativity, Pain, Today)
"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
- Kevyn Aucoin
(Related: Fashion, Lies, Responsibility, Variety, World)
"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Bed, Evil)
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Living, Man, Words)
"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Man, Now, World)
"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Life, Action, Attention, Choice, Consequences, Man, May)
"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Work, People, America, Man, Office)
"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Experience, Poetry, People, First, Obscurity)
"A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Man)
"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: World)
"No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Actions, Being, Class, Games)
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Society, Forgiveness, Crime, Interest, Murder, Party)
"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Time, Marriage, Romance, Creation, Emotion, Result, Will)
"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Faith, History, God, May, Race)
"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Life, Care, France, Ladies, Man, May)
"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)
"To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing."
- John James Audubon
"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Birds, English, Habits, Living, Man)
"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children."
- John James Audubon
(Related: Children, Fathers, Man, World)
"My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: Science, Romance, Fiction, Press)
"I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: People, Books, Want)
"I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: People, Idea, Eye, Hair, Living, Skin, Woman)
"The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality."
- Erich Auerbach
(Related: Life, Men, Individuality, Man, Old)
"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
- Red Auerbach
(Related: Performance, Promise, World, Worth)
"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."
- Red Auerbach
(Related: Actions, Apology)
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
- Bille August
(Related: Life, Society, People, Dream)
"I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time."
- Bille August
(Related: Life, Time, Months)
"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Money)
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Motivation, Talent, Will)
"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Existence, Problems)
"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Computer)
"One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: People, Lawyers)
"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Money, People, Possibility, May)
"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Hardware, Rank)
"Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
"It's easy to get a loan unless you need it."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Law, Nothing, Software)