Quotes and Sayings about Rank
"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime."
- Frank Abagnale
(Related: Technology, Crime, Today, Youth)
"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."
- Frank Abagnale
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Balance, Commitment, Sense, Writing)
"I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Jokes, Sound)
"What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."
- Frank Adams
(Related: Country, Needs)
"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: History, Peace, Aggression, Nations, Nothing)
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Memory, Nothing, Old)
"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Age, Golf, Middle age, Old)
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Information)
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Age, Life, Day, Man)
"Too much truth is uncouth."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Truth)
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Men, Women, Rights, Nothing)
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Health, Time, Now)
"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Imagination)
"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Country, Trouble)
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Business, Christmas)
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Men, Women, People, Elections, Vote)
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Time, Experience, People, Conviction, Country, Fool, Politicians, Trouble)
"You do not know what you can miss before you try."
- Franklin Pierce Adams
"Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
- Franklin Pierce Adams
(Related: Age, Golf, Middle age, Old, Years)
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Being, Garden, Songs, Value)
"This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky."
- James Agee
(Related: Open, Sky)
"Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Israel, Land, Priorities, Security, Water)
"Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."
- Alphonse Allais
(Related: Coffee, Sleep)
"We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it."
- Gary Allan
(Related: Pretty)
"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
- James Allen
(Related: Failure, Purpose)
"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed."
- James Allen
(Related: Flowers, Humanity, Poverty)
"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
- James Lane Allen
(Related: Failure, Purpose)
"Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Planning, Result, Summer)
"All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise."
- John Amery
(Related: Men, Open, Present, Promotion, Rank, Will)
"We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings."
- David Amram
(Related: Art)
"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
- Kevin J. Anderson
(Related: Time, Death, Successful, Books, Self, Silly, Writing)
"People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: People, Conservative, Washington, Words)
"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Job)
"One must be frank to be relevant."
- Corazon Aquino
"That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem."
- Les Aspin
(Related: Resolution)
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Age, Society, Money, Class, Race, Rank)
"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Crisis, Style)
"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Act, Day, Order)
"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Imagination, Work, People, Beginning, Magic, Sense, Will)
"The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Work, Fact, Style, Unity, Will)
"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Living, Mind, World)
"Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with."
- Frank Auerbach
"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
- Frank Auerbach
(Related: Madness, May)
"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Hardware, Rank)
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Life, Majority)
"I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Talk)
"These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Home, Kids, Today)
"The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Kids)
"Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: People)
"No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Movies)
"Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Kids, Old, Songs)
"It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Spirit)
"I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Life, Work, Family, Moderation, Relax, Want)
"I was not a trained actor."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Actor)
"I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Music, Today)
"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Fans, Want)
"I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it."
- Frankie Avalon
"I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Years)
"Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Age, Teen)
"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: End, Singing, Song, Style)
"They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Time, Fun)
"Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Time, Age)
"When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly."
- Frankie Avalon
(Related: Play)
"I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing."
- Lauren Bacall
"Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability."
- Amitabh Bachchan
(Related: Thought, Ability, Actor, Job)
"The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality."
- Tammy Baldwin
(Related: Health, Countries, Mortality)
"I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!"
- Roger Bannister
(Related: Age, Life, Thought, Now)
"No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man."
- Bernard Barton
(Related: Age, Sex, Man, Modesty, Necessity, Rank)
"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Age, Sex, Man, Modesty, Necessity, Rank)
"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Business, Men, World)
"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."
- Jacques Barzun
(Related: Business)
"The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick."
- L. Frank Baum
(Related: Road)
"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma."
- L. Frank Baum
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."
- L. Frank Baum
(Related: Imagination, Civilization, America, Columbus, Electricity, Mankind, Present, State)
"Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again."
- L. Frank Baum
"I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
- L. Frank Baum
(Related: Feeling)
"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."
- L. Frank Baum
(Related: Will)
"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"
- Anne Baxter
(Related: Wedding, Night)
"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Trying)
"The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: People, Fun, Guest, Play, Will)
"Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads."
- William Bell
(Related: Time, People, Ballads, Heroes)
"What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: Years)
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
- Joe Biden
(Related: Greed, Talk, Television)
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Failure, Being, Enemies, First, Man)
"Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense."
- Jeff Bingaman
(Related: American, Energy, Today)
"People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment."
- Claudia Black
(Related: People, Actor, Deals, Unemployment)
"Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records."
- Frank Black
(Related: Age, Will)
"But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job."
- Frank Black
(Related: Truth, Job)
"I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead."
- Frank Black
(Related: Country, Pleasure, Trying)
"People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library."
- Frank Black
(Related: Money, Brother, People)
"You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor."
- Frank Black
(Related: Being, Musicians, Writer)
"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Invention, Mothers, Play, Songs)
"The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Fans)
"First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Time, Boss, Decisions, First, Motives, Question)
"Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Music, Boss, Arguments, Open)
"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Mothers, Old, Opinions)
"As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Genius, Thought)
"It was a wild time - a time that I don't miss anymore. But then again, I'm 62 years old now and I think that lifestyle would probably put me where Frank's at now."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Time, Now, Old, Years)
"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Friendship, Brother, Years)
"The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa."
- Nina Blackwood
"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."
- Cate Blanchett
(Related: Question, World)
"It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president."
- John Boehner
(Related: Time, President)
"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Death, Fear, Enemy)
"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Battle, Eyes, Fire, Rank, Soldiers)
"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."
- Frank Borman
(Related: Christianity, Capitalism, Hell)
"It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work."
- Frank Borman
(Related: Work, Clouds, Lonely, Nothing)
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."
- Frank Borman
(Related: Exploration, Spirit)
"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."
- David Bowie
(Related: Songs)
"The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice."
- Wes Boyd
(Related: Party, Rank, Voice)
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
- Johannes Brahms
(Related: Health, Hatred, Jealousy, Rank, Suspicion, Trying)
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Wisdom, Action, Expression, Lies, Opinions, Promise)
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Frankness, Goodness, Kindness)
"There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Country, Spiritual)
"I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Attention, Challenge, President, states, United)
"I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Future, Generations, Order, Responsibility)
"And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Being, Problems, Woman)
"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."
- Jimmy Breslin
(Related: Life, Beer, Job, Newspapers, Rest, Writing)
"Who included me among the ranks of the human race?"
- Joseph Brodsky
(Related: Race)
"We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit."
- Tom Brown, Jr.
(Related: Courage, Cleverness, Spirit, Will)
"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
- Anatole Broyard
(Related: Being, Friends, World)
"When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: People, Boxing)
"If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Mind)
"Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Time)
"Some people like going to the pub; I enjoy going to the gym."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: People)
"Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Quality)
"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Colors, May)
"But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Lonely)
"We're not cameras, we're artists."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Artists)
"While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Students, Trying)
"I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Mind, Woman)
"The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Students)
"Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Boxing, World)
"I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Quick)
"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Want)
"For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Example)
"Color harmony was thrown out years ago, as restrictive chains were broken forming my free style."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Harmony, Style, Years)
"From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Character, Emotion)
"I ain't got no right to judge someone."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Right)
"I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Art, Faces, Fact)
"I like going to the gym every day."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Day)
"I usually have a title in mind before I start."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Mind)
"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Marriage, Man, Rank)
"There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was."
- Peabo Bryson
(Related: History, Time, American)
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
- Frank Buchman
(Related: Greed, World)
"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."
- Luis Bunuel
(Related: Love, Grave, Horror, Newspapers, Press, Years)
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Anthony Burgess
(Related: Mistake, Common sense, Country, Needs, Temper)
"Spontaneity has its time and its place."
- Arthur Frank Burns
(Related: Time, Spontaneity)
"We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear."
- Arthur Frank Burns
"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Father, Thought, Dumb, Pretty, Years)
"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Giving, Joy, Pleasure, Want)
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Christmas, Lent)
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Decisions)
"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Golf, Nothing)
"When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary."
- Red Buttons
(Related: People, Martin)
"The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: War, Gratitude, Afghanistan, America, Debt, Iraq, Now, Veterans)
"Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional."
- David Byrne
"I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security."
- David Cameron
(Related: Society, Afghanistan, Democracy, National security, Trying)
"You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Health, Money, People, Care, Country, Focus, Safety)
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Creativity, Trying)
"If you want to send a message, try Western Union."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Want)
"Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed."
- Frank Capra
"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
- Frank Capra
(Related: Advice, Film)
"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Extreme)
"In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Art, Courage, Eyes, Film, May, Profession)
"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Music, Film, Mathematics)
"Compassion is a two way street."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Compassion)
"Don't follow trends, start trends."
- Frank Capra
"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries."
- Frank Capra
(Related: Thought, Actors, Drama, Mistakes)
"Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it."
- Orson Scott Card
"Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Time, Popular, Will)
"Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence)
"Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Direction, Production, Right, states, Trade, United, Weapons)
"So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Government, Work, Choice, Oil, World, Years)
"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Needs, Participation)
"There's clearly something to be said for success and following through on your commitments."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Success)
"These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements."
- Frank Carlucci
"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Friend, Wealth, Israel, Participation, Security, Stability)
"Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Iraq, Key)
"But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Work, Time, American, Democracy)
"We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Destruction, Iraq, Stability, Trying, Weapons)
"My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence, Knowledge, Battle, Doubt, Information, Order, Participation, Understanding)
"Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Example, Participation, Reform)
"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)
"Intelligence is not a science."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence, Science)
"I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Action, Years)
"I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence, Community, Force, National security, Saying)
"And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Peace, Work, Diplomacy, First, President, Reason)
"And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: Intelligence, Judgment, Responsibility)
"I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi Arabia. I think Osama bin Laden really wants to topple that regime and have his people move in, but that's a whole other story."
- Frank Carlucci
(Related: People, Hate, Osama bin laden)
"I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life."
- Robert Carlyle
(Related: Life, Audiences, Balance, Want)
"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: Society, First, Open)
"I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Love, Actor, Want)
"Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?"
- Frank Carson
(Related: Car)
"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
- Frank Carson
(Related: Wife, Heart)
"So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'."
- Frank Carson
(Related: Want)
"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
- Frank Carson
(Related: Funny, Man)
"I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Time, Discrimination)
"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Battle, March)
"When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job."
- Ben Chandler
(Related: Thought, Job, Running)
"Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: Liberals, Rank)
"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Experience, Work, People, Retirement)
"First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: First, Rank, Risk)
"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Advertising)
"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
- Frank Chodorov
(Related: Americans, Fight, Want)
"All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates."
- Frank Chodorov
(Related: Power, Authority, End, State)
"When people say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you."
- Frank Chodorov
(Related: People)
"The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates."
- Frank Chodorov
(Related: Power, Giving, Lust, State)
"I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Actors)
"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public."
- Frank Church
(Related: American, Committee, Concern, First, Media, Misleading, Past, Potential, Present, Public)
"The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations."
- Frank Church
(Related: Credibility, Independence, May, Media, Press, Relationships)
"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Drinking, First, Meeting)
"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Power, Expression, Military, Rank, Today)
"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Rank)
"There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Beliefs, Help, Nothing, Trying)
"Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Man, Trying)
"Most smiles are started by another smile."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Smile, Smiles)
"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Christmas, Kisses, Pleasure)
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Generosity, Will)
"The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with."
- Frank Howard Clark
"Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Apples, Will)
"The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Ignorance, Reason)
"There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Needs, Nothing)
"There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Beliefs, Help, Nothing, Trying)
"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Health)
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Growth, Comfort)
"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Food, Money, Time)
"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Age, Effort, Old)
"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Children, Parents)
"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Money, Father, Son, Man)
"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Money, Time, Talent, Criticism)
"Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Money)
"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."
- Frank Howard Clark
"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Habit, Thinking)
"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Authority, Leading, Right)
"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Conscience, Man)
"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Growth, Criticism, Man, Rain)
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Life, Trying)
"Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Habit, Thinking)
"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Humor)
"I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Doubt)
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."
- Frank Howard Clark
"Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Being, Kindness)
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Obstacles)
"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Luck)
"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Truth, Evil, Gossip)
"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Baby)
"Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case."
- Helen Clark
(Related: End, World)
"My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy."
- Howard Coble
(Related: Home, Health, Population, State, states, United)
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Humor, Men, Murder, Treason, Will)
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Thought, People, Man)
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Committee)
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Art, Nature)
"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Progress, Fun, Mankind, Mind)
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Chance, Talk)
"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Politics)
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Love, Apathy, Interest, Persecution, Tolerance)
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Idea)
"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Company, Mind)
"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: People)
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Man, Will)
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Feeling)
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Men)
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Heart, Adventure, Day, Man, Question, Shadow, Sun)
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Communication, Improvement)
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Life, People, Pleasure, Questions)
"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: God)
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: canal, Literary, Man, Memory)
"Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others."
- James S. Coleman
(Related: Achievement, Class, Effect, Students)
"If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask."
- Frances Conroy
"Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe."
- John Conyers
(Related: War, America, American)
"I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk."
- Will M. Cook
(Related: Thought, Water, Wine)
"It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more."
- Alice Cooper
(Related: Music, Painting)
"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"
- Anderson Cooper
(Related: Nature, Mother, People, Blame)
"Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left."
- Chris Cooper
(Related: Politics, Pretty)
"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Father, Son, Man)
"It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: People)
"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Time, Reading, Witty)
"Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself."
- Frank Crane
"You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Succeed, Want)
"What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Friend, Will)
"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."
- Frank Crane
(Related: People, Responsibility, World)
"Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something."
- Frank Crane
"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Habits, Rules)
"A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Friends)
"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Friend)
"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Books, Importance, Titles)
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
- Frank Crane
(Related: Trust, May, Will)
"I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out."
- Joe Cronin
(Related: Rank, Wind)
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: Faith, Doubt, Night)
"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
- Ken Curtis
(Related: Theater)
"The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible."
- Marquis De Custine
(Related: Love, Country, Frankness)
"It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Enemies, Friends, Hate)
"Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Greatness)
"A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Conservative, Man)
"Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel."
- Frank Dane
"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Fools)
"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Fashion, Ignorance, Style, Today, Tomorrow, Will, Yesterday)
"In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Society, Jokes)
"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Life, Man)
"Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Company, Nothing, Woman)
"A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Liberal, Man, Will)
"Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Rome, Senators)
"The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements.""
- Frank Dane
(Related: Death, News)
"The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Heart, Woman)
"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Time, Money, Buying, Talking)
"Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Sin)
"There is no rank in sacrifice."
- Josephus Daniels
(Related: Sacrifice, Rank)
"I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member."
- Frank Darabont
"I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story."
- Frank Darabont
"I am fascinated with times past."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Past)
"Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Love, Film, Hate, Hell, Talking)
"And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Giving, Secrets)
"A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should."
- Frank Darabont
"Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Ideas)
"Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls."
- Frank Darabont
"To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film."
- Frank Darabont
(Related: Film)
"Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing."
- James Darren
"Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then."
- Larry David
(Related: People, Army, Today)
"So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Change, Government, Countries, Fact, Leaders, Needs)
"I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck."
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Car, Thought, End)
"During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: Youth)
"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding."
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Related: Wedding, Word)
"Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: Purpose, Iraq, Party, Present, Voting)
"I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Values, Democrats, Hypocrisy, Order, Will)
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Poetry, Girls, Living, Writing)
"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."
- Dan DeCarlo
(Related: Direction, Writing)
"You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches."
- Frank Deford
(Related: Society, Animals)
"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
- Frank Deford
(Related: Eyes, Light, Memory)
"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence."
- Bernadette Devlin
(Related: Equality, Mother, Church, Conservatism, Force, Freedom, Influence, Ireland, Security)
"My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra."
- Angie Dickinson
(Related: Mother, Being)
"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."
- Emily Dickinson
(Related: Poor, Spirit, Words)
"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Work, Belief)
"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Mind, Right)
"Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Frankness, Man)
"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Money, Peace, Power, Success, Discipline, Rank)
"All businessmen are scum."
- Frank Dobson
"I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Muslim, Schools)
"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Death, Health, People, Being, Cause, Causes, Dying, Now, Smoking)
"The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Present)
"There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West."
- Frank Dobson
"I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Leader, Elections, Now)
"And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Power, Privilege, Rank, Responsibility)
"Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano."
- George Duke
(Related: Feet)
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
- Alexandre Dumas
(Related: Failure, Being, Enemies, First, Man)
"It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments."
- Dick Durbin
(Related: Disability, Monuments, Rank, Veterans)
"We give each other a hard time, but no pranks."
- George Eads
(Related: Time)
"One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: War)
"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
- John Eaton
(Related: Music, Jazz)
"I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life."
- David Eddings
(Related: Business, Life, Army, Right)
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Music, Mistake, Contempt, Rank)
"I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad."
- Sam Elliott
(Related: Dad, Being)
"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
- Albert Ellis
(Related: Time, Children, Kids)
"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country."
- Rahm Emanuel
(Related: History, Negative, Act, Country, First, Want)
"I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told."
- Lynndie England
(Related: People, Rank)
"What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us."
- Nora Ephron
(Related: Sex, Mystery, Will)
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Giving, Mind, Rank, Reflection, Running)
"Women are not required in general to be named in rape cases because of the stigmas that go with being a rape complainant, and frankly, special burdens that rape complainants often face."
- Susan Estrich
(Related: Women, Being)
"The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's."
- Marianne Faithfull
(Related: God, Voice)
"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
- George Farquhar
(Related: Ale, Sleep)
"Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race."
- Frank Field
(Related: Democracy, Politicians, Poor, Race)
"I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed."
- M. F. K. Fisher
(Related: Life, Living, Thinking, Wine)
"Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: English, Language, Popular, World)
"Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality."
- Carlisle Floyd
(Related: Time, Thought, Conflict, Personality)
"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."
- Eddie Floyd
(Related: Inspiration, Teenagers)
"The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax."
- William Floyd
(Related: Relax)
"Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish."
- Bill Ford
(Related: Company, Personality)
"I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves."
- Bill Ford
(Related: Accomplishments, End, World)
"When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well."
- Bill Ford
(Related: Money)
"I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do."
- Glenn Ford
(Related: Time, Day, Difference, Example, Film)
"For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Family, Time, Life, First, Right, Road)
"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."
- Jonathan Frakes
(Related: Actor)
"If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer."
- Anne Frank
(Related: People, Mind)
"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
- Anne Frank
(Related: Soul)
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Being)
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Beauty)
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Character, Lies)
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Nature, God, Lonely, Quiet)
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Character, Advice, Lies, Parents, Right)
"No one has ever become poor by giving."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Giving, Poor)
"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Work, Laziness, May, Satisfaction)
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Will)
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Death, People, Heart, Confusion, Misery)
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
- Anne Frank
(Related: People, Heart)
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
- Anne Frank
(Related: People, Heart, Ideals, Wonder)
"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Thought, Heart, Conscience, Now, Words)
"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Being, Boys, Girls, Will)
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
- Anne Frank
(Related: News, Potential)
"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Character, Advice, Children, Lies, Parents, Right, Words)
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
(Related: World)
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Beauty, Misery)
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
- Anne Frank
(Related: People, Heart, Ideals)
"I live in a crazy time."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Time)
"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Time, Ideals, Will)
"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Peace, Death, Confusion, Misery, Will)
"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
- Anne Frank
(Related: People, Heart, Living, Trying, World)
"What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Delay, Ethics, Republicans)
"The regulation of medicine has been a State function."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Medicine, State)
"Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship."
- Barney Frank
(Related: America, Martin, Worship)
"Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Time, Democrats, Now, Republicans)
"People are entitled to the presumption of innocence."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Innocence)
"The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Life, People, American, Tax, Taxes)
"The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Fact)
"The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Internet, Now, Reality, Right, Sense, Talk)
"There's a lot to be said for not displacing people."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People)
"They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore."
- Barney Frank
"This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot."
- Barney Frank
"Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Public, Today)
"While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Experience, April, Creation, Fact, Job, Jobs)
"But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Government, First, Osama bin laden, President, Surrender)
"When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Action, Community, Effort, Injustice, Law, Poverty)
"Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Medicine, Practice, State, Talking, Will)
"Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Intention, Majority, Media, Party)
"But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Money, Decisions, Poor)
"It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Politicians, Words)
"But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Attention, Democrats, Republicans, Right, Saying)
"And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Politicians)
"But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Policy, Efficiency, Inequality, Public, Public policy, Will)
"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Power, Decision, Capitalism, Decisions, Perspective, Will)
"Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Action, Community)
"For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Legislation, Poor, Sense, Welfare)
"It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Action, Capitalism, Community, Fight)
"I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Authority, Children, Deep, May)
"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Being, Gay, Majority, Minority)
"If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Committee, Ethics)
"It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Education, People, Party, Proof, Republican, Right)
"In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Work, Americans, Decisions, Majority, Wages)
"Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Experience, People, Help, Learning, Liberals, Poverty, Variety, World)
"Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Policy, Country, Decisions, Income, Inequality, Result)
"I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Religion, Work, People, Hope, Being, Cause, Religious, Will)
"Boxing is just show business with blood."
- Bruno Frank
(Related: Business, Blood, Boxing)
"In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Nature, Development, Laws)
"The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Government, Discipline, Police)
"On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam."
- Hans Frank
"Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Law, Party)
"My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary."
- Hans Frank
(Related: First)
"My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort."
- Hans Frank
(Related: War, Effort, Harm, Justice)
"It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Dream)
"It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Legal, Idea)
"The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Events)
"In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag."
- Hans Frank
"I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Legal, College, Party, Teaching, Workers)
"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Decisions, Problems, Questions)
"I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me."
- Hans Frank
(Related: American, Army, Events)
"I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Legal, Victory, Interest, Questions, Struggle, Years)
"First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio."
- Hans Frank
(Related: First, Justice, State, states)
"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Nothing, Police)
"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Police)
"A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Germany, Guilt, Will, Years)
"War is not a thing one wants."
- Hans Frank
(Related: War)
"In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement."
- Hans Frank
(Related: People, Greatness, Victory, Country, Fanaticism, Man, Order)
"At Sun, we have a special number you can call if there is something important happening."
- James Frank
(Related: Sun)
"We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid."
- James Frank
(Related: Fun, Language)
"We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen."
- James Frank
(Related: Idea, Character, Name)
"We came up with three core touchy feely words."
- James Frank
(Related: Words)
"Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew."
- James Frank
(Related: People, Customer, Old)
"For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings."
- Otto Frank
(Related: Feelings, Idea, Thoughts)
"I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait."
- Otto Frank
(Related: Hope, Children)
"We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return."
- Otto Frank
(Related: Death, Wife, Children)
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph."
- Robert Frank
(Related: Vision, Humanity, Photography, Realism)
"I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love."
- Robert Frank
(Related: Life, Love, Criticism, Indifference, Opinion)
"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it."
- Robert Frank
(Related: Work, Thoughts, Past, Romantic, Words)
"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."
- Robert Frank
(Related: Sentimentality, Want)
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
- Robert Frank
(Related: Hope, Colors, Despair, Mankind, Photography)
"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
- Robert Frank
(Related: Mind, Will)
"It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph."
- Robert Frank
"It doesn't matter what one says; it matters what one does."
- Steve Frank
"In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm."
- Thomas Frank
(Related: Business, America)
"In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on."
- Thomas Frank
(Related: People, Culture, Tycoon)
"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
- Thomas Frank
(Related: Culture)
"I was in a bad mood when I wrote that."
- Thomas Frank
"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances."
- Thomas Frank
(Related: People, Circumstances, Free will, May, Potential, World)
"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries."
- Thomas Frank
(Related: Computer, Focus, Internet, Popular, Talk)
"I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Force, Jobs, Right, Spirit)
"I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Time, April, Christmas, Community)
"We have to scrutinize the entire abatement process to ensure the companies that are under consideration for an abatement truly need one, and I don't believe that is being done now."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Being, Consideration, Now)
"I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: First, Police, Rank, Respect)
"I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Successful, Study)
"I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Care)
"I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Development, Challenge, Faces)
"I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Community, Relationships)
"As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Development, Progress, Planning)
"A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Family, Home, People, Crime, Economics, Support)
"Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Education, Children, Job, Schools, Will)
"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."
- Al Franken
(Related: Argument, Conservative, Liberal, Media, Oil, Right)
"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken
(Related: Advice)
"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
- Al Franken
(Related: Life, Mistake, Being, Mistakes)
"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you."
- Al Franken
(Related: Power, Nature)
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
- Al Franken
(Related: World)
"If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong."
- Al Franken
(Related: Day, Effect, Liberals, Soldiers, Troops, Wrong)
"I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'"
- Al Franken
(Related: Work, Day, Job, Months)
"I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks."
- Al Franken
(Related: People)
"I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with."
- Al Franken
(Related: Environment, Focus, Lying, Media, Right)
"Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure."
- Al Franken
(Related: Politics, People, Being, Comedy, Pressure)
"And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it."
- Al Franken
(Related: Funny, People, Being, Information)
"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that."
- Al Franken
(Related: Being, Habits, Liberal)
"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."
- Al Franken
(Related: Home, Politics, Network, Senate)
"The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life."
- Al Franken
(Related: Life, Christian, Culture, Extreme, Global warming, Hypocrisy, Poverty, Religious, Right)
"The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team."
- Al Franken
(Related: Right, Years)
"The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good."
- Al Franken
(Related: Business)
"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."
- Al Franken
(Related: Money, Conservative, Liberal, Media)
"We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science."
- Al Franken
(Related: Science)
"Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself."
- Al Franken
(Related: Comedy, Value)
"When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation."
- Al Franken
(Related: Building, Nation, President)
"But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause."
- Al Franken
(Related: Cause, Day, Help, Media, Party, Republican, Right)
"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks."
- Al Franken
(Related: Money, First, Pretty, Right, Years)
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."
- Rose Franken
(Related: Lovers, Silly)
"The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Strength, Being, First, Importance, Trying, Writers)
"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Trouble)
"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Business)
"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Actor, First)
"One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Life)
"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Movies)
"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Job, Old)
"You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Work, Want)
"The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Love, Work, First)
"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Movies, Actors)
"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Importance)
"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Choice, Efficiency, First, Will)
"There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Control, Experts, Now)
"There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Money, Work, Life, Will, World)
"To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Life, Beginning, End, Pretty)
"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Choice, First)
"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Work, People, Job)
"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: People, Now, Office, Old)
"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Money, Time, People, Day, Responsibility)
"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: God, Act, Editors, Hollywood)
"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Choice, Company)
"Casting is 65 percent of directing."
- John Frankenheimer
"If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Actors, Mistakes, Right)
"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Technology, Fact, Film, Key, Trying)
"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Control, Experts)
"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Life, Want)
"I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Accident, Actors)
"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: People, Ability, Film, Revolution, Importance)
"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Men, Intelligence, Women, Feet, Sense)
"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Pretty)
"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: People, Actors)
"First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Business, Movies, First, Want)
"I really, really love directing films."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Love)
"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Art, Invention, Rules)
"A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image."
- Helen Frankenthaler
"I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate."
- Helen Frankenthaler
"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Heart)
"The question of sex will take care of itself."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Sex, Care, Question, Will)
"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Wonder)
"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Challenge, Difficulty, Learning, Problems)
"You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once."
- Helen Frankenthaler
(Related: Control, Accident)
"The landscapes were in my arms as I did it."
- Helen Frankenthaler
"There can be no security where there is fear."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Fear, Security)
"The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Effort)
"To some lawyers, all facts are created equal."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Facts, Lawyers)
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Day, Deep, Judgment, May, Order, Today, Yesterday)
"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Successful, Forget, professionals)
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Wisdom)
"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Life, Want, World)
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Power, Exercise, Washington)
"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Strength, Confidence, Man, Mind, Security)
"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: History, Liberty)
"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Age, Man, Old, Sickness)
"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Chess, Pursuit)
"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Answers, Question, Wrong)
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Constitution)
"It simply is not true that war never settles anything."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: War)
"Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Controversy, Question)
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Life, Work, Constitution, Laws, Semantics, Tools, Understanding, Words)
"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Society, End, Freedom, Press)
"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Man)
"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Gratitude, Deep, Emotions)
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: History, People, Liberty)
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Inequality, Man, Treatment)
"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Force, Man, Mind, Order, Police)
"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: May, Order, Today, Tomorrow)
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Policy, Constitution, Court, May, Writing)
"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Life, Being, Expression, Meaning, State)
"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Life, Day, Man, Meaning)
"What is to give light must endure burning."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Light)
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Life, Man, Meaning)
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Attitude, Ability, Circumstances)
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Time, First, Living)
"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Life, Goals)
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Liberty, Responsibility)
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Fear, May)
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Attitude, Circumstances, Man, Woman)
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Fulfillment, Mission, Vocation)
"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Life, Being, Man)
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Change)
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Power, Growth, Freedom, Lies, Space)
"A human being is a deciding being."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Being)
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: People, Meaning, Today)
"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Faith, Will)
"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Soul, Song)
"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Hair, Woman)
"I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Lady)
"Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!"
- Aretha Franklin
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Music)
"Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: God, Being)
"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: Losing, Weight)
"I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is."
- Aretha Franklin
(Related: People)
"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fear, Failure, Mistakes, Will)
"Beauty and folly are old companions."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Beauty, Folly, Old)
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Being, Shame)
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Will)
"Beware the hobby that eats."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."
- Benjamin Franklin
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Death, Certainty, Nothing, Taxes, World)
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men, Content, Discontent, Poor)
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Memories)
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Mother, Diligence, Luck)
"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Enemies, Friends)
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Age, Judgment, Will, Wit, Years)
"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Life, Time)
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Life, Love, Time)
"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Habit)
"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Dress)
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Reading, Worth, Writing)
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Gain, Leisure)
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Energy, Persistence)
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Peace, May)
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Experience, Fools, Will)
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Caution, Distrust, Parents, Security)
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Daughter, Admiration, Ignorance)
"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Change, Thought, Being, Consideration, Information, Opinions, Right)
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Cats, Fish, Lawyers)
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Christmas, Conscience)
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Food, Home, Body, Fire, Mind)
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Life, Grave, Laziness, Leisure, Will)
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man)
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Friend)
"A small leak can sink a great ship."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Peace, War, Man, Neighbors, New year, Vices)
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Mankind)
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
- Benjamin Franklin
"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Religion, Work, Partnership, World)
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Knowledge, Interest, Investment)
"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man)
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Anger, Reason)
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fool, Fools)
"Applause waits on success."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Success, Applause)
"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Silence, Word)
"A place for everything, everything in its place."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Temple, Ignorance)
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Experience, Fools, School, Will)
"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Haste, Waste)
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Forget)
"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fault, Present)
"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Art, People, Acting)
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Happiness, People, Constitution, Right)
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People)
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wisdom)
"Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Work, Eye, Will)
"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Business, Mistake, First, Public)
"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Injustice, Law)
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Happiness, Constitution, Pursuit)
"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money)
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Faith, Eye, Reason)
"The discontented man finds no easy chair."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man)
"Our necessities never equal our wants."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Necessity never made a good bargain."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Bargain, Necessity)
"Never confuse motion with action."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Action)
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Today, Tomorrow)
"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wife)
"Nine men in ten are would be suicides."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men)
"No nation was ever ruined by trade."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Nation, Trade)
"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man)
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Today, Worth)
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Self)
"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Bed, Debt)
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: God, Obedience, Rebellion)
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Remember that credit is money."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, Credit)
"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Manners)
"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Observe all men, thyself most."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men)
"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men, Heart, Poets, Tongue, Woman)
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Work)
"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People, Circumstances, Heaven, Improvement, Information, Leisure, Man, Respect)
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wealth)
"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Anger, Shame)
"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."
- Benjamin Franklin
"When in doubt, don't."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Doubt)
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fools, Practice, Treachery)
"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Difficulties, Mankind, Will)
"When you're finished changing, you're finished."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Where liberty is, there is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Country, Liberty)
"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Sense)
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Love, Marriage, Will)
"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"
- Benjamin Franklin
"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Forget)
"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Business, Wisdom, Execution, Projects, Public, Trouble)
"Mine is better than ours."
- Benjamin Franklin
"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Being, Man, May, Result)
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Government, People, Dishonesty)
"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Man)
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Peace, War)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Liberty, Safety)
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Those that won't be counseled can't be helped."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Idleness, Trouble)
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Time is money."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, Time)
"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Faith)
"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Life)
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Succeed)
"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fault, Tomorrow)
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, Wife, Friends, Old)
"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People, Victory, Will)
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin
"He that rises late must trot all day."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Day)
"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."
- Benjamin Franklin
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fortune)
"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."
- Benjamin Franklin
"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Peace)
"He that's secure is not safe."
- Benjamin Franklin
"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Being, Mind, Old)
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Reason)
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, May, Opinion, Will)
"Honesty is the best policy."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Policy, Honesty)
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Courage, Faults, Resolution)
"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Day, Fortune)
"Hunger is the best pickle."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Hunger)
"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Mankind, Value)
"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People, Favors, Ingratitude)
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Love, Will)
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Being, Poor, Shame)
"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Mistake, Being, Goodness, Man)
"Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Gain, May)
"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Body, Games, Mind)
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Education, Genius)
"God helps those who help themselves."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: God, Help)
"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: God, Man, Now, Wonders)
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Family, Pleasure, Sorrow)
"Half a truth is often a great lie."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Truth, Lie)
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Hope, Will)
"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wealth)
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Patience, Will)
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
- Benjamin Franklin
"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wife, Danger)
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Kindness, Will)
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Excuses)
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Death, Constitution, Sleep)
"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fish, Guests)
"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Life, Old, Tragedy)
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Habits)
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wealth)
"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People, Blind, Clothes, Eye, Houses, Ruin, Want)
"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man)
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Deeds, Reputation)
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Marriage, Eyes, Open)
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wrong)
"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Leisure, Will)
"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men, Faith, Want, World)
"Lost time is never found again."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time)
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Selling, Buying, Man, Pleasure)
"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: People)
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Happiness, Marriage, Man, State, Will)
"Fatigue is the best pillow."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Fatigue)
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Laws)
"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Desire, Will)
"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Eating, Hunger)
"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Life, Beginning, Faults, First)
"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Name)
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man, Wishes)
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Man)
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Industry need not wish."
- Benjamin Franklin
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time)
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Death, Nothing, Taxes, World)
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
- Benjamin Franklin
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Love)
"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, Value)
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Reading, Worth, Writing)
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Nature, Cookery, Improvement, Mankind)
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Money, Nature, Happiness, Man, Nothing, Will)
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Passion, Reason)
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Desire, First)
"You may delay, but time will not."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Time, Delay, May, Will)
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Habits, World, Worth)
"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Benefits)
"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Benefits)
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Work, Tomorrow, Years)
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Actions, Man, May, Meaning, Wit, Words)
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Success, Progress, Achievement, Growth, Improvement, Meaning, Words)
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men, Advice, Fools)
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: God, Proof, Wine)
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Content)
"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wife, Fault, Faults)
"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Content)
"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."
- Benjamin Franklin
"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
- John Hope Franklin
(Related: Travel, Journey, Wilderness, World)
"We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all."
- John Hope Franklin
(Related: Life, Truth, Country, Goodness, Learning, World)
"If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past."
- John Hope Franklin
(Related: Order, Past, Present)
"It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda."
- John Hope Franklin
"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people."
- Miles Franklin
(Related: People, Right, Worth)
"Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings."
- Miles Franklin
(Related: Needs)
"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."
- Lucinda Franks
(Related: Love, Men, Baby, Christmas, Night)
"The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity."
- Lucinda Franks
(Related: Eternity, Meaning, Mind)
"A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time."
- Oliver Franks
(Related: Time, May)
"The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, World, Years)
"Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: American, Years)
"If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Government, Constitution, Destruction, Military, states, United, Will)
"If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Government, Consequences, Destruction, Republican)
"I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Alliance, America, Harm, Question, states, United)
"America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Time, America, Americans)
"As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character."
- Tommy Franks
(Related: Character, Man, President, Will)
"When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends."
- Frank Frazetta
(Related: Art)
"What I do is create images, period."
- Frank Frazetta
"By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do."
- Frank Frazetta
(Related: Time, Art, Artist)
"I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful."
- Frank Frazetta
(Related: Work, Successful, Hope, Artist, Artists, Freedom)
"America faces a new race that has awakened."
- E. Franklin Frazier
(Related: America, Faces, Race)
"Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information."
- E. Franklin Frazier
(Related: Education, Inspiration, Information, Past)
"Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life."
- E. Franklin Frazier
(Related: Life, Politics, Failure, Church, Prizes)
"The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist."
- E. Franklin Frazier
"We get too soon old and too late smart."
- Frank Kelly Freas
(Related: Old)
"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Rank)
"Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Ambition, Career, Tenacity)
"If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Americans, Enemy)
"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)
"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Destruction, Oil, Trying)
"The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Ability, American, Nations, United)
"The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Power, Strategy, Defeat, states, United, World)
"The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Rights, Law, Sea)
"). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Nations, Ships)
"My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter."
- Jeff Gannon
(Related: Time, Job, Past, Writing)
"Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar."
- Leif Garrett
(Related: Teen)
"I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done."
- Paul Gascoigne
"And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time."
- Frank Gehry
(Related: Time, People, Meetings)
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
- Frank Gehry
(Related: Architecture, Time)
"For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it."
- Frank Gehry
(Related: Day, First, Insecurity, Project)
"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city."
- Frank Gehry
(Related: Work, Architecture, Jazz, Play, Trying)
"Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head."
- Frank Gehry
(Related: Work)
"You've got to bumble forward into the unknown."
- Frank Gehry
"I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view."
- Elizabeth George
(Related: Writing)
"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
- David R. Gergen
(Related: Television)
"When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind."
- Maurice Gibb
(Related: Dumb, Mind)
"All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me."
- Philip Gibbs
(Related: Men, Rank, Scotland)
"We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Boss, Father)
"Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Fame)
"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Football)
"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."
- Frank Gifford
"It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Fact, Football)
"I was the law and order."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Law, Order)
"I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Time, Boss, Father, Friend)
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Clouds)
"Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football."
- Frank Gifford
(Related: Chance, First, Football, Night, Now, Years)
"Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now."
- Ed Gillespie
(Related: Thought, Now)
"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Career, Jobs, Talk)
"Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
(Related: Time, Thought, Growth, Concern, Population, Want)
"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Fame, Rank, Unworthy)
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
- Arthur Golden
(Related: Pain)
"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)
"The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Americans, Energy, Fact, Independence, Priorities, Rank, Security, Sense, states, United)
"I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much."
- Eydie Gorme
"We were with Frank as part of his very last tour."
- Eydie Gorme
"I am a man of few words, but many riddles."
- Frank Gorshin
(Related: Man, Words)
"The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!"
- Frank Gorshin
"With money, who needs friends?"
- Frank Gorshin
(Related: Money, Friends, Needs)
"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
- Sue Grafton
(Related: Books, Formula, Hell, Want)
"Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away."
- Bob Graham
(Related: War, Afghanistan, Being, Iraq)
"These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'"
- Lauren Graham
(Related: Time, Will)
"Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford."
- Phil Gramm
(Related: Home, National security, Nothing, Oil)
"Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present."
- Asa Gray
(Related: Candor, Cause, Difficulties, Present, Theory, Worth)
"Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues."
- Robert Greenleaf
(Related: Boss, Talk)
"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Men, Women, Rank, Sight, Talking)
"I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging."
- Kathy Griffin
(Related: Listening)
"As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure."
- Frank Hague
"You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that."
- Frank Hague
(Related: Time, American, Free speech, Rights, Man, Press, Talk, Words)
"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder."
- Lawrence Hargrave
(Related: Space)
"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes."
- Jane Harman
(Related: Intelligence, Successful, Being, Committee, Congress, Democrats, Play, Tomorrow, Will)
"Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion."
- Stephen Harper
(Related: Government, Canada, Opinion)
"Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction."
- Frank Harris
(Related: Fiction)
"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."
- Frank Harris
(Related: Destiny, Will)
"The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin."
- Frank Harris
(Related: Love, Morality, Inspiration, Christian, Being, Churches, Goodness, Sin, Spirit)
"Sex is the gateway to life."
- Frank Harris
(Related: Life, Sex)
"I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers."
- Frank Harris
(Related: Difficulty, Writer)
"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"
- Frank Harris
(Related: Age, Christianity, Faults, Journalism)
"Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind."
- Frank Harris
(Related: People, Kites, Opposition, Wind)
"We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness."
- Katherine Harris
(Related: Women, Attention, Effort)
"I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was."
- Jim Harrison
(Related: Thought)
"We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by."
- John Harrison
(Related: Open)
"I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get."
- Randy Harrison
(Related: Work, Career, Want)
"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation."
- Alcee Hastings
(Related: Education, People, Country, Hunger, Mortality, Nation, Public, Yesterday)
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Nature, Present)
"Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses."
- Rita Hayworth
(Related: Result, Stars, Today)
"And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened."
- Patty Hearst
(Related: Family, Murder, Saying)
"I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won."
- Patty Hearst
(Related: War, Successful, Information, Law, Terrorism)
"I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Water)
"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
- Martin Heidegger
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
- Joseph Heller
(Related: Government, War)
"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Religion, Duty, Law, United)
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
- Frank Herbert
"Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Wealth, Freedom, Pursuit, Slavery)
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Beginning, End, Mortality, Terror)
"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Fact, May, Senses, World)
"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Violence)
"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Change, Control, Wealth, Battle, Conflict, Will)
"The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Danger, Lies)
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: People, Action, Distrust, Want)
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Change)
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Knowledge, Beginning, Discovery)
"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Truth)
"Something cannot emerge from nothing."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Nothing)
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Being, Difference, Road, Sentiment)
"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Enemies)
"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Truth, Darkness, Falsehood, Light)
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: End, Road)
"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Control)
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Denial, Man, Self)
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Government, Popular, Sense, Will)
"It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Man, Poor)
"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Beginning, Cruelty, Kindness)
"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Religion, Progress, Future, Myth)
"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Morality, Truth, Being, Respect)
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Discipline, Freedom, Liberty)
"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Home, Computer, Revolution, Logic, Understanding)
"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."
- Dwayne Hickman
(Related: Film)
"Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia."
- Daniel H. Hill
(Related: Men, Society, Existence, Years)
"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."
- Bob Holden
(Related: Tax, State)
"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."
- Frank Hornby
(Related: Boys, Engineering, Secrets, World)
"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
- Lena Horne
(Related: Ability, Want)
"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
- William Dean Howells
(Related: Dream, Man)
"You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal."
- Kurt Huber
(Related: Rank)
"My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues."
- John Hume
(Related: Father, Unemployment)
"I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Education, Money, Budgets, Economy, Example, Healthcare, Help, Will)
"I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me."
- Elizabeth Hurley
(Related: Intelligence)
"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
- John Hurt
(Related: Life, Mother, Father, Fear, Drinks, Woman)
"Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys."
- Scott Ian
"Homophobia is gay."
- Frank Iero
(Related: Gay)
"If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn."
- Frank Iero
"There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
- John James Ingalls
(Related: Grave, Rank)
"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
- John James Ingalls
(Related: Men, Democracy, Grave, Rank)
"And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain."
- Jean Ingelow
(Related: Heart, Old, Pain, Will, Years)
"The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine."
- James Irwin
(Related: Christmas, Earth, Space)
"Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined."
- Steve Israel
(Related: American, Poverty, President, Security, Workers)
"How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked."
- Burl Ives
(Related: Liberty)
"We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them."
- Frank James
(Related: Money, Banks, Horses)
"When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms."
- Frank James
(Related: Dogs, Feet, Horses, Sound)
"I was tired of an outlaw's life."
- Frank James
(Related: Life)
"I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace."
- Frank James
(Related: Peace, Day, Years)
"It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil."
- Frank James
"This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September."
- Jesse James
(Related: June)
"The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Fact, Friends, Israel, Leaders, states, United, World)
"It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did."
- Peter Jennings
(Related: Connection, Politicians)
"I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone."
- Celia Johnson
(Related: Autobiography)
"I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood."
- Holly Johnson
(Related: Time, Hollywood, Musicians, Sound)
"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."
- Franklin Jones
(Related: Bargain)
"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Legal, Advice, Talk)
"Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Love, Word)
"A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not."
- Franklin P. Jones
"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Women, HusbCare, Children, Day, Will)
"You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Forget, Memory)
"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Business, Food, Money, Horses)
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Being, Bravery)
"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Children, Inconsistency)
"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Experience, Mistake)
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Experience, Mistake)
"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Language, Water, World)
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Autobiography, Memory, Nothing, Writer)
"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Talent, Crisis, Remarkable)
"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Values, Nothing, Sound, Temptation)
"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Being, Nothing, Party)
"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Listening, Talking)
"One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Time, Reading, Trouble)
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Art, Originality)
"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Fire, Old, Speech, World)
"Sex is a two-way treat."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Sex)
"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Fear, May, Moon, Opinion)
"The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one."
- Franklin P. Jones
"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Money, Labor)
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Being, Trouble)
"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: People, Temptation, Want)
"When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Nothing)
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Children, Patience)
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Job)
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Friend, Acquaintance, Criticism)
"Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms."
- Frank Jordan
(Related: Family, Open)
"We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope."
- Frank Jordan
(Related: Hope, Emotions, Needs)
"I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart."
- Frank Keating
(Related: Heart)
"With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate."
- Frank Keating
(Related: Americans, Debate, Security)
"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
- John Keegan
(Related: People, University)
"I am a rank individualist."
- Arthur Keith
(Related: Rank)
"I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Wine)
"To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Time, War, First)
"There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: War, People, Nations, Public, Will, World)
"These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, May, Nations, Opinion)
"I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, Time, Hope, Vision, Humanity, Opinion)
"There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, War, America, Confidence, Countries, Years)
"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Land)
"The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Life, People, Development, Fact, Influence, states, Today, United)
"There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: History, Cure, Dawn, Magic, Mankind, Road)
"Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Progress, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Desire)
"It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Change, Nature, Day, Human nature, Will)
"It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: History, War, Building, Effect, Nations, Struggle)
"If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Work, Genius, People, Hope, Ability, Confidence, Will)
"I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, War, Conflict, Military)
"I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, Europe, World)
"Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: War, Peace, Nations, Will)
"Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Defense)
"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, People, Hope, Confidence, Nations, Promises, Responsibility, World)
"It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Men, Peace, Women, Attention, Committee, Interest, Will, World)
"Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, People, Burden, Competition, Land, World)
"I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Work, Peace, Cause, Humanity, Nations)
"France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Time, Confidence, France, Italy, Nations, Will)
"Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?"
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Men, War, Sacrifice, Time, Belgium, France, Sleep, Today, Years)
"I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Peace, War, End, Force, Nations, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Questions, Will, World)
"I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high."
- Frank B. Kellogg
"I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: History, Opportunity, Development, Cause, Country, Honor, Value, World)
"I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: states, United)
"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
- Edward Kennedy
(Related: Being, Mind, President)
"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Trust, Despair, Facts, Future, Heir, Obligation, Past, State)
"Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well."
- Patrick J. Kennedy
(Related: Progress, Abundance)
"I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: God, Abortion, Care, Principles, Will)
"Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude."
- Benjamin Franklin King
(Related: Food, Work, Clothes, Nothing)
"Nowhere to go but out, Nowhere to come but back."
- Benjamin Franklin King
"So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10."
- Frank King
"The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers."
- Robert Kirkman
(Related: Beginning, First, Information, Old, State)
"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
(Related: Government, Democracy)
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Mistake, Being, First)
"The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing."
- Werner Klemperer
(Related: People, Fact, Mind)
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
- Frank Knight
(Related: Sense, Will)
"We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do."
- Frank Knight
"The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past."
- Frank Knight
(Related: Possibility, Future, Identity, Past, Respect, Saying, Will)
"It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest."
- Frank Knight
(Related: Science, Rest)
"In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do."
- Frank Knight
"Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest."
- Frank Knight
(Related: Difference, Rest)
"All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things."
- Frank Knight
(Related: Science, Sense)
"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Family, God, Beds, Heaven)
"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Civilization, Heart, Man, Nothing, Tolerance, Woman)
"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Quality, Thought, Progress, Liberal, Mercy, Today, Tolerance)
"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Navy)
"Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Patriotism, Belief, Purpose, Fire, Living)
"Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices."
- Frank Knox
"Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks."
- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Elections)
"The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral."
- Jon Kyl
(Related: Death, Tax)
"I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role."
- Shia LaBeouf
(Related: Actor)
"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."
- Karl Lagerfeld
(Related: Funny, People, Drugs, Friends, Nothing)
"There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year."
- Tim LaHaye
"And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene."
- Christine Lahti
(Related: Death, Movies, Purpose, Tears, Want)
"I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic."
- Frank Lampard
(Related: Love, Hope, Fans)