Quotes and Sayings about Post
"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, War, Post, Study, Vietnam, Washington)
"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Fiction, Literature, Writers)
"I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?"
- Kathy Acker
"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Power, Help, Rumor)
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Hope, Freedom, Will)
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
- Robert Adams
(Related: Television)
"The post of honour is a private station."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Post)
"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)
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Posterity)
"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
- George Ade
(Related: Being, Posterity)
"In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step."
- Giovanni Agnelli
(Related: Economy, Europe, First, Years)
"My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Goal, Medicine, Problems, Research, Training)
"The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow."
- Gracie Allen
(Related: President, Today, Tomorrow)
"I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Determination, Generosity, President)
"Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Christ, Nations, Spirit, World)
"In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Truth, Action, Decision, Consequences, Doubt, Question, Sense, Spirit)
"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Men, Spiritual)
"My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(Related: Home, Death, Mother, Life, Anxiety, Being, Duty, Letters, Living, Pain, Post, Relatives)
"The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post."
- Leonid Andreyev
(Related: Death, War, Loss, Post, Reason)
"There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Children)
"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Work, God, Existence)
"These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties."
- Hannah Arendt
"Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life."
- Margot Asquith
(Related: Life)
"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Legal, Information, Mail, News, Public, Talking)
"Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor."
- Mary Astell
"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
(Related: Being, Company, Destruction, Difficulty, First, May, Post, Wood)
"The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Business, Ability, America, Nation, Service)
"The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Mail, Service)
"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."
- Michele Bachmann
(Related: College, Tax, Law, School)
"I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union."
- Fredrik Bajer
"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Death, God, Harm, Patience, Profit, Sorrow, Will)
"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Idea, President, states, United)
"You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it."
- Faith Baldwin
(Related: Heart, Brotherhood, Mind)
"The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given."
- Jan Peter Balkenende
(Related: Peace, War, Europe, Generations, Liberty, Post, Prosperity, World, World war)
"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Faith, Commitment, Example, New testament, Order)
"It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special."
- Todd Barry
(Related: Night)
"I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place."
- Todd Barry
"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Evening, Man, Prayer, Sleep)
"It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles."
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
(Related: Attention, First, Letters, Study)
"When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Life, Work, Living)
"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."
- Hans Bender
(Related: Life, Mind)
"I leave from where the apostle arrived."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
- Warren G. Bennis
(Related: People, Ideas, Content)
"Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea."
- Robert Benton
(Related: Movies, Play, World)
"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives."
- Polly Berrien Berends
(Related: Baby, Parenthood)
"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."
- Lord Charles Beresford
(Related: Lie, Post)
"I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Choice, Now, Post)
"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."
- John Berger
(Related: Media, Opinion, Past, Post, Present)
"Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Music, People, Country, Jobs, Now, Post, Production)
"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: Entertainment)
"I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those."
- Bernardo Bertolucci
(Related: Care, Film, Office, Post)
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Attitude, Majority, Respect)
"The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Men, Dying, Post)
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
- Josh Billings
"In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Purpose, Fathers, Founding, Newspapers, Post, Washington)
"Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about."
- Joan Blades
(Related: People, Internet, Media, Post, Sense)
"My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect."
- Uwe Boll
"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."
- Julian Bond
(Related: People, News, Post, Washington)
"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Effort, Information, Internet, Numbers)
"If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles."
- Pat Boone
(Related: Honor)
"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron."
- Lizzie Andrew Borden
(Related: Father, Kitchen, Office, Post, Windows)
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Flattery, Nothing, Posterity, Worth)
"There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11."
- Joe Bob Briggs
(Related: Time, End, Now, Post)
"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Now, Office, Post)
"I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love, Man, Post, Stress, Suffering)
"The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future."
- Norman O. Brown
(Related: Capitalism, Enjoyment, Future)
"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."
- Sergei Bubka
(Related: Money, Coaches)
"Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest."
- Pat Buchanan
(Related: Country, Post, Saying, Washington)
"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: People, Innovation, Posterity, Result, Spirit, Temper, Will)
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: People, Posterity, Will)
"We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that."
- Steve Burns
(Related: Work, Animation, Post)
"There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw."
- Stephen Cambone
(Related: Concern, Misleading, Perspective)
"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
- Jane Campion
(Related: Women, Thinking)
"I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone."
- Pierre Cardin
(Related: Post)
"But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Fool)
"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about."
- Tucker Carlson
(Related: Life, Positive, School)
"It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: War, End, Germany, Months, Post, World, World war)
"Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Time, Christmas, Mail, Office, Post)
"Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming."
- Chevy Chase
"This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Faith, God, Church, Christ, Doctrine, First, Will, Writing)
"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Body, Christ, Eating, Meaning)
"When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story."
- Gary Cherone
(Related: Post)
"Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Medical, Time, Immortality, Post, Results, World)
"Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Intelligence, Defense, Legislation, Nation, Needs, Now, Post, World)
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
- Noam Chomsky
(Related: American, Laws, Post, President)
"Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Family, Muslim, Day, First, Pain, Post, Radical, Sorrow)
"Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards."
- Christo
(Related: Books)
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
- Winston Churchill
"Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Name)
"It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other."
- Emile M. Cioran
"The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Men, Old, Spirit, Words)
"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Work, God, Christ, Followers, Living, Man, Satan, Sin, Spirit, Will)
"Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Faith, Love, God, Christ, Laws, Obedience, Will)
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."
- Henry Clay
(Related: Constitution, Posterity, states, United)
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Belief, Help, Man, Posterity, Privilege, Responsibility, Speech, Will, World)
"I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may."
- Jarvis Cocker
(Related: Women, Day, May, Post, Stress)
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Artist, Living, Man)
"Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth."
- Richard J. Codey
(Related: Mom, Time, Mother, Depression, First, Months, Mothers)
"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Nothing, Selfishness)
"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Genius, End, Interest, May, Posterity)
"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Merit, Posterity, Will)
"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."
- Barry Commoner
(Related: Technology, War, Now, Post, Production)
"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Quick, Writers)
"Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Desire, Fulfillment)
"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Energy)
"Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."
- E. Joseph Cossman
(Related: Posterity)
"We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Exploration, Limits, Oil, Post, Production, Washington)
"As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Experience, Leader)
"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Hate, Hurt, Police, Riot, Speech, University)
"For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post."
- Nicholas Culpeper
(Related: Faith, God, Post, Tradition)
"I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that."
- John Cusack
(Related: Love, Movies, Film)
"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."
- Claire Danes
(Related: July, Projects)
"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."
- Rodney Dangerfield
(Related: Control, Birth control)
"I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Grace)
"To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Actions, Nothing, Obedience, Rest)
"That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world."
- Robyn Davidson
(Related: Home, Idea, Post, Sense, Voice, World)
"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Idea)
"We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?"
- Kim Deal
(Related: Time, People, Acting, Europe, Now, Right)
"And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone."
- Mos Def
(Related: Home, Post)
"Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing."
- Johnny Depp
"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Hope, Discovery, Pleasure, Posterity, Will)
"In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!"
- Jim Diamond
(Related: Work, Cause)
"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Love, Death, Life, Creation)
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Age, Future, Nation, Posterity, Suffering, Youth)
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Nation, Posterity, Youth)
"I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Living)
"I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?"
- David Herbert Donald
(Related: Gay, Heroes)
"The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity."
- Ignatius Donnelly
(Related: Hope, Ancestry, Party, Posterity, Pride)
"I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Movies, Horror, Want)
"I'm a huge poster collector."
- Illeana Douglas
"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Being, News, World)
"Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism."
- Terry Eagleton
"Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so."
- Gregg Easterbrook
(Related: People, Thoughts, Harm, Now, Risk, Saying, Wrong)
"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement."
- Abba Eban
(Related: Elegance, Flexibility, Will)
"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."
- Bernard Ebbers
(Related: Company, Internet, Post)
"I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research."
- Aaron Eckhart
(Related: Information, Post, Research, World)
"'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?"
- Charles Edwards
(Related: People, Advertising)
"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone."
- Andrew Eldritch
(Related: Art)
"I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars."
- Shannon Elizabeth
(Related: Fight, Fun)
"We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process."
- Ted W. Engstrom
(Related: Benefits, Learning, Mistakes)
"The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one."
- Jeffrey Eugenides
(Related: Old, Self)
"What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it."
- Marc Faber
(Related: Government, Crisis)
"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."
- Jules Feiffer
(Related: Mother, Father, Contempt, Opinions, Speech)
"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything."
- Pierre de Fermat
(Related: Posterity, Will)
"But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Art, Career, Painting, Songs, Writing)
"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."
- Colin Firth
(Related: Day)
"To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of."
- Ronald Fisher
(Related: Examination, Post)
"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."
- Ronald Fisher
(Related: May, Post)
"I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq."
- Harold Ford
(Related: Fact, Iraq, Post, President, Want)
"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Reality)
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
- Lukas Foss
(Related: Art, Science, Emotion, Intellect, Order)
"In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy."
- Klaus Fuchs
(Related: War, Policy, Post)
"One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Destruction, Post, President, Security, Terrorism, Weapons)
"When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it."
- Adolf Galland
(Related: Post, Proof)
"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Policy, Zeal)
"Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?"
- Marguerite Gardiner
(Related: Monuments, Names, Posterity, Respect, Vanity)
"I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan."
- Jay Garner
(Related: War, Beginning, Building, Day)
"Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside."
- William E. Geist
(Related: Men, Reading)
"In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!"
- Philip Gibbs
(Related: Chance, Deep, Machine)
"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."
- Arnold H. Glasgow
(Related: Life, Football)
"Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states."
- Arthur Godfrey
(Related: Mom, College, Daughters, Office, Post, states, Years)
"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Life, Man, Posterity)
"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."
- Al Goldstein
(Related: Battle, Fight, Post, Washington)
"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
- Ellen Goodman
(Related: Deep, Traditions)
"As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Technology, Photography, Post)
"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
- Billy Graham
(Related: Heart, Attitude, Body)
"My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer."
- Robert Guillaume
(Related: People, Ability, Acting, Actor, Jobs, Now, Office, Post, Singing)
"My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit."
- David Guterson
(Related: Post, Spirit)
"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
- David Guterson
(Related: Needs, Post)
"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."
- Mark Haddon
(Related: Hope, Being, Gay, Writer, Writing)
"I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Being, Feeling, Post)
"Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Education, People, Advertising, Party, Support, Training, Will)
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
- Alex Haley
(Related: Help, Post)
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
- Christopher Hampton
(Related: Dogs, Writer)
"Compost makes houseplants very happy."
- Shalom Harlow
"I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure."
- Shalom Harlow
(Related: Adventure)
"In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important."
- Jane Harman
(Related: Diversity, Post, World)
"The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use."
- W. Averell Harriman
(Related: War, Thought, Effort, Plants, Washington)
"In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Life, Now, Past, Post, Years)
"It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something."
- Randy Harrison
(Related: Actor, Being, Danger, Want)
"I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something."
- Randy Harrison
(Related: Attention, Want)
"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Bed, Christmas, First, Parting, Vanity)
"The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Economy, Tax, Jobs, Post, Reason, Unemployment)
"I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks."
- Patty Hearst
(Related: Disorder, Free will, Post, Stress)
"Dogs are forever in the push up postion."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Dogs)
"Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post."
- Bobby Heenan
(Related: Limits, Post)
"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
- Jim Henson
(Related: College, First, School, University)
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out."
- Robert Hewison
(Related: Optimism, Post)
"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."
- Elias Hicks
(Related: Truth, Encouragement, Friends)
"I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease."
- Betty Hill
(Related: Legal, Office, Post, Problems)
"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Job, Persistence)
"I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home."
- Tony Hillerman
(Related: Home, People, Elderly, Old, Post, Right)
"We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one."
- Martina Hingis
"The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Family, Church, Body, Spirit)
"That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Fact, Office)
"The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Church, Christ, Earth, Theory)
"When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Day, Promise, Spirit)
"The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Giving)
"The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Age, Church, Authority, Body, Churches, Rest)
"The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way."
- Charles Hodge
(Related: Government, People, Church, Right)
"Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice."
- Gil Hodges
(Related: People, Forget, Letters, World)
"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Science, Mystery, Theater)
"In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'"
- Brad Holland
(Related: Being, Media, Reality)
"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
- Brad Holland
(Related: Truth, People, Emotions, Mind, Myth, Name, Psychology, Reality, State)
"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't."
- Brad Holland
(Related: Art, Society, Artists, Compromise, Democracy, Fact, Trying)
"It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Constitution, Senate, states, United, Years)
"If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Friend, Hope, Constitution, Will)
"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."
- Stephen Hopkins
(Related: Life, Being)
"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
- Horace
(Related: Living)
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
- Horace
(Related: Soul, Cure, Eye)
"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Thought, Man, Posterity, Reputation, World)
"An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Will)
"How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do."
- Mike Huckabee
(Related: Leaders, Wrong)
"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Funny, Sound)
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Body, Moments)
"We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: History, Direction, Politicians)
"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Business, Thought, Difference)
"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Government, Office, Post)
"That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Government)
"We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: History, Opportunity, American, Communism, Democracy, Fighting, Focus, Occupation)
"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of."
- Hugh Jackman
(Related: Business, Family, Time, Privacy, Worry)
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
- Alice James
(Related: Success, Life, Lie, Failure, Luck, Posterity, Right)
"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."
- Billy Joel
(Related: Drinking)
"We were perceived as a post-grunge band."
- Daniel Johns
(Related: Post)
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
- James Joyce
(Related: America, Columbus, Posterity)
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
- Herbert Kaufman
(Related: Success, Courage, Failure, Habit, Victory, Ambition, Persistence)
"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television."
- Val Kilmer
(Related: Culture, Influence, Media, Presidency, Television, Theory)
"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."
- Larry King
(Related: Business, Eyes, Saying, World, Writers)
"We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt."
- Peter King
(Related: American, Destruction, Doubt, Iraq, Post, President, Weapons, World)
"In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq."
- Peter King
(Related: Progress, Being, Destruction, Doubt, Iraq, Post, Result, Weapons, World)
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Peace, War, Negative, Affirmation)
"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
- Stephen Cole Kleene
(Related: Post)
"I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service."
- Billy Koch
(Related: Thought, Gold, Service, Trying)
"The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics."
- C. Everett Koop
(Related: Care, Post)
"I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post."
- Tony Kornheiser
(Related: Now, Post, Right, Television, Washington)
"Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise."
- Saul Kripke
(Related: Truth)
"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."
- Louis Kronenberger
(Related: Age, Trouble)
"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
- Nguyen Cao Ky
(Related: War, Communism, Vietnam)
"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."
- R. D. Laing
(Related: Post)
"I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing."
- Joe Lando
"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
- Walter Savage Landor
(Related: Posterity, Writing)
"An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination."
- Andrew Lang
(Related: Man, Statistics, Support)
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination."
- Andrew Lang
(Related: Man, Statistics, Support)
"Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Development, Media, Popular, Post, Press)
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: God, Humor, Performance, Being, Blind, Driving, Poets, Sense)
"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."
- Robert E. Lee
(Related: Posterity, Right)
"Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof."
- Gottfried Leibniz
(Related: Ideas, Principles, Proof, Word)
"I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature."
- Gottfried Leibniz
(Related: Experience, Nature, Idea, Possibility, Cause, Fact, Reason)
"The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you."
- John Lennon
"He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind."
- Daniel De Leon
(Related: Change, Earth, Sun, Will)
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Hell, Road)
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Achievement, Road)
"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
"If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior."
- A. J. Liebling
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."
- Joshua L. Liebman
(Related: Values, Maturity)
"If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Men, Man)
"There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Man, Sky)
"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."
- Amy Lowell
(Related: Heart, Fire, Moon, Want)
"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Peace, Love, God, Hope, Children, Day)
"I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time."
- Henry R. Luce
(Related: Time, Journalism, Posterity, Tradition, Want)
"Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system."
- Richard Lugar
(Related: Experience, Time, People, Democracy, Elections, Fate, Now, Post, Russia)
"Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age."
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
(Related: Age, Knowledge)
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
(Related: War)
"What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense."
- Catharine MacKinnon
(Related: Defense, Effect, Pretty, Violence)
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
- Catharine MacKinnon
(Related: Genocide)
"Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted."
- Catharine MacKinnon
(Related: Women, Theory, World)
"It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride."
- John Mahoney
(Related: War, Sister, First, Post, states, United, Visit)
"I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence."
- Malcolm X
(Related: American, Man, Solution, Violence)
"You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world."
- Nicolas Malebranche
(Related: Change, Men, Effect, Evil, World)
"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts."
- Og Mandino
"We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe."
- Kenny Marchant
(Related: Peace, Time, Countries, Mission)
"I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up."
- Cindy Margolis
(Related: America, World)
"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."
- Luther Martin
(Related: Man, Post)
"Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?"
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Care, Posterity)
"The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Power, God, Soul)
"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Design, People, Act, Argument, Contradiction, Duty, Now, Office, Public)
"Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Virtue, Obedience, Public)
"I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything."
- Craig McCracken
(Related: People, Film, Will, Word)
"I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform."
- Jim McDermott
(Related: Health, Fear, America, Care, Reality, Reform, Struggle)
"Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote."
- Josh McDowell
(Related: Time, Followers, Majority)
"I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome."
- Rose McGowan
(Related: Life, Post, Stress)
"But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: American, Americans, Faces, Fact, Key, Land, Service)
"Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Reform, Service, Today, Years)
"Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver."
- John McHugh
(Related: Americans, Commitment, Expectation, Service, Will)
"Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans."
- John McHugh
(Related: Americans, Legislation, Now, Reality, Reform, Senate, Service, Vote, Will)
"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
- Robert G. Menzies
(Related: Policy, Forget, Posterity, Speech)
"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Life)
"Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard."
- Kate Millett
(Related: Men, Women, Divorce)
"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Government, Pretty)
"We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess."
- Cleo Moore
(Related: Wife, Acting, Adultery, Film, Post, Public)
"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."
- Dick Morris
(Related: America, Idealism, Interest, Lies, Post)
"I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story."
- Rob Morrow
(Related: Post)
"Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed."
- Julius Sterling Morton
(Related: Earth, Posterity)
"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically."
- Robert Mugabe
(Related: History, Punishment, Suffering)
"The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal."
- Richard J. Needham
(Related: Service)
"For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all."
- Graham Nelson
(Related: Thought, Care)
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Death, Error, Giving, Living, Losing, Suffering)
"And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc."
- Dudley North
(Related: Cities, Countries, Nations, Posterity)
"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."
- Alfred Noyes
(Related: Boldness)
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Women, Post, Study, Want, Washington)
"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Judgment, Marketing, Post, Research, Support)
"For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles."
- Origen
(Related: Men, Being, Mystery, Old)
"This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels."
- Origen
(Related: Time, Angels, Devil, Opinion, Present)
"It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird."
- Stacie Orrico
(Related: People, Christian, Friends)
"This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself."
- Marie Osmond
(Related: Baby, End, Killing)
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Virtue, Planning, Posterity)
"I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron."
- Joe Pantoliano
(Related: Being, Post, Press, Saying)
"Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration."
- Joe Pantoliano
(Related: Post, Talk)
"That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken."
- Saint Patrick
(Related: God, Words)
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Home, Father, Children, End, Posterity, Privacy, Words, World)
"Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Time, History, Christ, English, First, Land, Preaching, Rome, Today, World)
"The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan."
- Christine Pelosi
(Related: President, Will)
"We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them."
- Christine Pelosi
(Related: Congress, Decisions, Leading, Post)
"I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Office, Post, Running, Water, World)
"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
- Emo Philips
(Related: Evil, Incompetence, Office, Post)
"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Art, Business, People)
"Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag."
- Zebulon Pike
(Related: Time, Direction, English)
"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"
- Amy Poehler
(Related: Day)
"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Time, Summer)
"To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule."
- Emily Post
(Related: Neighbors)
"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory."
- Emily Post
(Related: Thought, Conversation, Oratory, Wit, Worry)
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
- Emily Post
(Related: Feelings, Awareness, Manners)
"Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor."
- Emily Post
(Related: Science, Ethics, Etiquette, Honor, Living, Nothing)
"To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation."
- Emily Post
(Related: Cooking, Man, Old, Recreation, Saying, Woman)
"I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes."
- Wiley Post
(Related: Time)
"Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Time, Performance, Computer, Job, Measure, Project, Research, School)
"One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Computers, Time, Decision)
"One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Home)
"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Errors, Order, Want)
"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Computer, Internet, Word)
"The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together."
- Jon Postel
(Related: People, Internet)
"The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Want)
"If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Name, Space, Ugly)
"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."
- Jon Postel
(Related: World)
"I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet."
- Jon Postel
(Related: God, Internet)
"There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Government, Internet)
"Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be."
- Jon Postel
(Related: People, Building, Care, Internet, Now, Years)
"The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis."
- Jon Postel
(Related: First)
"But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Home, People, Planning)
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Name)
"All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it."
- Jon Postel
"Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Work)
"In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Class, Computer, Writing)
"Being in the limelight has its minuses."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Being)
"But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Home, Computer, Connection, Pretty)
"Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Corporate, Fans, Football, Trying, Word)
"Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Will)
"Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive."
- Jon Postel
"I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Authority, Internet, Names, Space)
"I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net."
- Jon Postel
(Related: First)
"I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Work, Internet, Sense)
"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Conservative, Liberal)
"Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence."
- Mark Poster
(Related: Family, Being, Today)
"Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way."
- Mark Poster
(Related: Film, Revolution)
"Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class."
- Mark Poster
(Related: Experience, Society, People, Class, Film)
"So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?"
- Mark Poster
(Related: Politics, Aesthetics, Question)
"Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy."
- Mark Poster
(Related: Government, Abuse, Attention, Enemy, Propaganda, Terrorism)
"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."
- Franka Potente
(Related: Brother, Parents)
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
- Romano Prodi
(Related: Statistics, Support)
"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
- Henri Queuille
(Related: Art, Politics, Decisions)
"This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians."
- Sally Quinn
(Related: Americans, Post, Washington)
"I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack."
- Sally Quinn
(Related: Post, Projects, Security)
"The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Boss, First, Saying)
"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
- Ernest Renan
(Related: Progress, Liberty)
"But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past."
- Donna Rice
(Related: First, Media, Past, Post, Race, Washington, Woman)
"Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys."
- Patricia Richardson
(Related: Time, Women, Father, Boys, Cooking)
"On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting."
- Jay Roach
(Related: Hope, Decisions, Detail, Post, Production, Talk, Worth)
"The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate."
- J. M. Roberts
(Related: People, Kings, Laws, Post, Public)
"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Posterity)
"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Work, End, First, State)
"Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community."
- Jai Rodriguez
(Related: Community, Gay)
"In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Education, Military, Nation, Post, World)
"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Design, Happiness, Future, Present)
"The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Government, Healthcare, Office, Post, Right)
"The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Civilization, Progress, Force, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, World)
"The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Justice, Nation, Nations)
"Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity."
- Dante G. Rossetti
(Related: Love, Eternity)
"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Acceptance, Now)
"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
- Galen Rowell
(Related: Editors)
"As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Kids, Now, Post, Violence, World)
"Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Post, Washington)
"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
- Salman Rushdie
(Related: History, Purity)
"Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq."
- Tim Russert
(Related: Money, War, Tax, Iraq, Tax cuts, Terrorism)
"There are no signposts in the sea."
- Vita Sackville-West
(Related: Sea)
"The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period."
- Kim Y. Sam
(Related: Blood, Freedom, Nations, Post, states, Troops, United)
"I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that."
- Ryne Sandberg
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Forget, Future, Now, Past, Post, Tomorrow)
"Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Office, Post, states)
"The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic."
- Philip Schaff
"Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Posterity)
"Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Day, Dress, Style)
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Death, Interest, Sleep)
"In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Mistakes, Nation, Post, Security, World)
"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
- David Joseph Schwartz
(Related: Fear, Act, Fight)
"I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe."
- Frank Scott
(Related: War, Ideas, Europe, Post, World, World war)
"I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time."
- Sean William Scott
(Related: Time, Friends)
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."
- Vin Scully
(Related: Statistics, Support)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Life)
"At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men."
- Ernest Thompson Seton
(Related: Men, Travel, Books, Famous, Meeting)
"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know."
- Ben Shahn
(Related: Propaganda)
"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Love, Post)
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
- Irwin Shaw
(Related: Posterity, Surprises)
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
- Dinah Sheridan
(Related: HusbChildren)
"The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: Perspective, Understanding)
"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Life, Peace, Draft, Germany, May, Want, Will)
"We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world."
- Bill Shuster
(Related: Concern, Post, Security, Will, World)
"You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause."
- Carly Simon
(Related: People, Cause, Honor, Want, Will)
"If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about."
- Alfred P. Sloan
(Related: Time, Decision, Agreement, Gain, Meeting, Understanding)
"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."
- Alexander Smith
(Related: Man, Plants, Posterity)
"If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it."
- Charlotte Smith
(Related: Conquest, Posterity)
"I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post."
- Shepard Smith
(Related: Moments, Post)
"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray."
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Related: Church, Majority, Will)
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
- Socrates
(Related: Courage, Enemy, Man, Post)
"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
- Thomas Sowell
(Related: Truth)
"It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it."
- David Spade
(Related: Trying, Want, Will)
"Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation."
- John Spratt
(Related: People, Oil, Troops, Weapons)
"We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews."
- Kenneth Starr
(Related: Post, Washington)
"Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: First, Influence, May, Sound)
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
- Richard Steele
(Related: Mind, Woman)
"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."
- Jack Steinberger
(Related: Propaganda)
"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
- Gloria Steinem
(Related: Death, Corporations, Job, Now, Reward)
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Love, Man, May, Posterity, Respect, Spirit, Will)
"I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Work, Energy, Want, Wind)
"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
- Sting
(Related: Children, Example, Old, Want)
"The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world."
- John Strachan
(Related: Life, Death, Churches, Nations, Sleep, Superstition, Words, World)
"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
- John Strachan
(Related: Melancholy)
"In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached."
- John Strachan
(Related: Belief, Christian)
"If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace."
- Gustav Stresemann
(Related: Peace, Hope, Being, First, May, Years)
"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: People, Body, Now, Sin)
"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: People, Now, Sin)
"The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness."
- Larry Summers
(Related: Time, Countries, Now, Post, Prosperity, Protection, states, United)
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
- Algernon Sydney
(Related: Common sense, Concern, Eyes, Posterity, Reason, Understanding, Will, Words)
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
- William Howard Taft
(Related: Christ, Divinity)
"Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it."
- Tertullian
"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
- Twyla Tharp
(Related: History, Time, Thought, Deals, Mission, Posterity, Years)
"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
- Twyla Tharp
(Related: Expression, Now, Silly, Word)
"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Posterity)
"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."
- Anthony Trollope
(Related: Will)
"In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise."
- Anthony Trollope
(Related: Biography, Man, May)
"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."
- Robert Trout
(Related: Happiness, Life, People, Identity, Mankind, Posterity)
"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"
- John Trumbull
(Related: Trust, Rights, Obligation, Posterity)
"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Night)
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
- Stanley Tucci
(Related: Film, Silly)
"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated."
- Franjo Tudjman
(Related: War, Loss)
"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Meditation)
"Postmodernism cost literature its audience."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Literature)
"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
- Lao Tzu
(Related: Fear, Courage, Discipline, Strength, Disorder, Weakness)
"A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Mind, State)
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Challenge, Problems, Software)
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Security, Software)
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Running, Service, Windows)
"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Work, People, Choice, Software, Want)
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
- Wietse Venema
(Related: Mail, Today)
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
- Diane Wakoski
(Related: Poetry, Art, American, Culture, Post)
"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Music, Science, Architecture, Computer, Literature, Post)
"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Post)
"One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures."
- Larry Wall
(Related: Power, People, Ideas, Post, Rejection)
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
- David Foster Wallace
(Related: Talking, Writers)
"The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: America, Fascism, Present, Will)
"Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?"
- Robert Walpole
(Related: Disgrace, Name, Posterity, Years)
"If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion."
- Robert Walpole
(Related: Power, Army, Commerce, Delusion, Destruction, Liberty)
"In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods."
- Zack Wamp
(Related: Post, Safety, Security, World)
"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
- Rachel Ward
(Related: Hollywood, Sunset)
"I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy."
- Denzel Washington
(Related: Man, Office, Post)
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
- George Washington
(Related: Experience, Enemy, Possession)
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
- George Washington
(Related: Patriotism)
"The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system."
- Diane Watson
(Related: Service, states, United, World)
"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming."
- Keenen Ivory Wayans
(Related: First, Post)
"And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you."
- Sanford I. Weill
(Related: Mother, Fight, Hurt, Play)
"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."
- Len Wein
(Related: Art, Eyes, Mistakes, Posterity, Right)
"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."
- George Weinberg
(Related: People, Obvious)
"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: Mistake, Night, Woman)
"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
- Peter Weir
(Related: Example, Internet)
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."
- Orson Welles
(Related: Money, Work, Posterity)
"I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman."
- Joss Whedon
(Related: Ego, Singing, Want)
"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
- Walt Whitman
(Related: Fools, Old)
"For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war."
- Armstrong Williams
(Related: War, History, Beginning, Country, Democracy, End, First, Post, Relationships, Trade)
"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Day, Rest, Writing)
"Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict."
- Elizabeth Wilson
(Related: Conflict, Difference, Inequality, Perspective, Privilege)
"The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play."
- Dave Winfield
(Related: People, American, Chance, Play, Post)
"People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity."
- Dick Wolf
(Related: People, Communication, Necessity)
"The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused."
- Bob Woodward
(Related: Post, Rap, Washington, Years)
"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
- Bob Woodward
(Related: Newspapers, Post, Washington)
"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
- Bob Woodward
(Related: Deep, Name, Post, Washington)
"I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return."
- Bob Woodward
(Related: People, Night, Post, Talking, Washington)
"If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research."
- Chauncey Wright
(Related: Science, Experience, Direction, Research)
"My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it."
- Ron Wyden
(Related: People, Post, Sense, Years)
"The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment."
- Brock Yates
(Related: Environment, Now, Post)
"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Connection, May, Taste)
"Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Misfortune)
"You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping."
- Pia Zadora
(Related: Thought)
"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important."
- David Zucker
(Related: Time)