Quotes and Sayings about V
"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Acting)
"It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Relationships, Songs, Talk)
"Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Time, Right)
"There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Life, Want)
"There are times I can't even figure myself out."
- Aaliyah
"You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Love, Want)
"All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from."
- Aaliyah
(Related: God, Hope, Fans)
"If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Kids, Security, Want)
"In film, you are a totally different person than in the video."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Film)
"I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin."
- Aaliyah
(Related: People, Chance, Eye, Longevity, Public, Want)
"I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing."
- Aaliyah
"I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing."
- Aaliyah
(Related: People)
"I have the time needed to support the album and tour."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Time, Support)
"I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Work, Success, Successful)
"I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget."
- Aaliyah
(Related: Work, Forget, Fun, Will)
"If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy."
- Aaliyah
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Time, People)
"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Architecture, Art, Life, Building, Nothing, Possibilities, Problems)
"We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Committee, Nothing, Problems)
"We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Work)
"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Art, Life, Building, Harmony, Thinking)
"I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?"
- Willie Aames
(Related: Death, People, Christ, Teaching, Wonder)
"I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Children)
"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Christianity, Hollywood)
"I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Love, Time, God, People, Bible, Study, Years)
"I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them."
- Willie Aames
(Related: People, Christ, Hurt, Kids, Will)
"I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me."
- Willie Aames
(Related: God, People, Day, Now, Saying)
"God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing."
- Willie Aames
(Related: God, Heart, Building, Children, Patience)
"It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you."
- Willie Aames
(Related: People)
"There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break."
- Willie Aames
(Related: God, Heart, Grace)
"They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Food, Wife, Heart, Daughter, Fear, Day, Eating)
"This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Heart)
"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Family, Life)
"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Technology, Kids)
"We've been called, and He has blessed."
- Willie Aames
"We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Commitment)
"When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Wonder)
"If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Comfort)
"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Home, Baseball, Fans, Games, Play)
"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Weapons)
"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: End, Giants)
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Feeling, Trouble)
"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Baseball, Golf, Years)
"I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Home, Will)
"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Nothing, Smile)
"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Life, Ability, Wonder)
"I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Time, Career, Past)
"I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Practice)
"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."
- Hank Aaron
(Related: Work, Play, Right)
"If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'."
- Frank Abagnale
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
- Abu Abbas
(Related: War, Mistakes, Remorse)
"We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals."
- Abu Abbas
(Related: War, Thought, Goals)
"There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Freedom, Independence, Will, World)
"We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Want)
"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Life, People, Hope, Dignity, Freedom, Liberty, May, Normality, Support)
"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Authority, Law, Responsibility)
"We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Democracy, Popular, Respect, Result)
"We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Vision, Ending, Occupation, President, Solution, State)
"We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: American, Diplomacy, Persuasion, Want)
"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Earth, State)
"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
- Mahmoud Abbas
(Related: Country, State)
"The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Dreams, Action, Moods, Motive, Study)
"True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Science)
"As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: End, Influence, Man, Needs, Population)
"I have started that which the country will not willingly let die."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Country, Will)
"It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Life, Friends, Usefulness, Youth)
"My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs."
- Cleveland Abbe
(Related: Life, Ignorance, Popular, Weather)
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Conservative, Evil, Hell, Old)
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Government, Country, Insult, Poor)
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Clouds, Leading, May, Mountains)
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Government, Country)
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Men, Observation)
"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Love, Anger, Man, Nothing)
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Experience, Science, Thought, Logic, Reason)
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Missionaries)
"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Science, Information, Today, Understanding)
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Society)
"Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do."
- Edward Abbey
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Civilization, Culture, Youth)
"What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Purpose)
"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Time, Old)
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: History, Love, Habit, Research, Support, Writing)
"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Ideas, Writers)
"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Universe, Words)
"One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia."
- Lynn Abbey
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Balance, Commitment, Sense, Writing)
"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Idea, Words)
"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Ideas, Editors, Fantasy, Risk, Want, Writer)
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Editors, Feet, Open)
"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: God, Books, Free will, Sense, Surprises, Writers, Writing)
"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Writing)
"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Books)
"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Successful, First, Writer)
"I'm always trolling for trivia."
- Lynn Abbey
"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Magic, Theories)
"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."
- Lynn Abbey
(Related: Being, Fantasy, Writer)
"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
- Lynn Abbey
"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Death, Life, Positive, Act, Living, Photography, Song, Word)
"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is."
- Berenice Abbott
"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Challenge, First, Word)
"There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Ruin, Teachers)
"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
- Berenice Abbott
(Related: Photography)
"That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Europe, Tax, Stars, Today)
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Movies, Home, Television)
"Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: First, Now)
"Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Home, Love, Time, People, Help)
"They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!"
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Now)
"They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Liquor)
"Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive."
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Car, Life)
"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?"
- Bud Abbott
(Related: Comedy, Fight)
"You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Self)
"The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Government, Truth, Difficulty, First)
"My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Mother)
"My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain."
- Diane Abbott
(Related: Country, Crime, London)
"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Government, Congress, Judgment)
"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Baby, Responsibility)
"Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time."
- Grace Abbott
(Related: Time, Children, Disease, End, Labor, Poverty, Treatment, Will)
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Life, Day, Prison)
"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Emotions, Mind, World)
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Support)
"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Experience, Life, Night, Talk)
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Malice, Nothing)
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Eyes)
"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: American, Pressure, Prison, Sensations)
"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Deep)
"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Now, Routine, Years)
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Nothing)
"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."
- Jack Henry Abbott
(Related: Anger, Life, Control, Day, Paranoia)
"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
- John Abbott
(Related: Being, Man, Questions)
"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."
- John Abbott
(Related: Ability, Culture, Man, May)
"The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Man, Reason, Rest)
"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Flowers)
"Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Life, Virtue, Innocence, March, Temptation, Vice)
"Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Life, Virtue, Innocence, March, Temptation, Vice)
"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
- Lyman Abbott
(Related: Virtue, Infinite, Possibilities, Vice)
"Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Peace, Being, Promise, Succeed, World)
"When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Time, People, Opportunity, Hope, Nations, Talk, Want)
"Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Earth, Isolation, Justice, Satisfaction, Violence)
"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Knowledge, Opportunity, Numbers)
"In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change."
- Abdallah II
(Related: Change, Successful, Reform, Will)
"Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Artists, Jobs, Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Heartbreak, Singing)
"Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Will)
"There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love)
"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Trust, Faith, Perseverance)
"Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing."
- Paula Abdul
"I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Dancing, Will)
"I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC."
- Paula Abdul
"I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Character)
"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: People, Successful, Friend)
"I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Beginnings, Forget, Fun, Jobs, Will)
"Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Friends, Play)
"American Idol has taken over my whole life."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Life, American)
"America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love, America, Innocence, Saying, Training)
"Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Positive, Criticism)
"I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Love, Job)
"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Choice, Evolution)
"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Negative, Actions, Students, Teachers)
"I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Islam)
"I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Will)
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: professionals)
"I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Movies, Mother)
"Your mind is what makes everything else work."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Work, Mind)
"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Successful, Hope)
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Americans)
"I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Progress, Race)
"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Hope, Basketball, Coaching, School)
"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Sacrifice, Will)
"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, Children, Job)
"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Successful)
"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: History, People, Idea)
"Center is a very tough position to play."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Play)
"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Court)
"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Work, Preparation)
"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Achievement)
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, American, Loyalty)
"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: Soul, Body, Emotions, Forget, Play)
"When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Related: People, Positive, Burden)
"The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?"
- King Abdullah II
(Related: Age, People, Humanity, Today)
"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work."
- Agha Hasan Abedi
(Related: Work, People, Management)
"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
- Peter Abelard
(Related: Wisdom, Truth, Key, Question, Questioning)
"It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth."
- Peter Abelard
(Related: Truth)
"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Photography, Pleasure, Simplicity)
"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
- Sam Abell
(Related: Desire, Photography)
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
- Hal Abelson
(Related: Giants)
"On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Opportunity)
"Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Time, Play)
"Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Time, Musicians, Perfection, Want)
"You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo."
- John Abercrombie
(Related: Music, Thought, Jazz, Play, Trying)
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Expression, First, Individuality, Restraint)
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Age, Balance, Individuality, Morals, Nothing, Welfare)
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Determination, Man)
"The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Interest, Nations, Value, World)
"The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Style, Tradition)
"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing, State)
"An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Beauty, Poetry, Difficulty)
"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Invention, Needs)
"It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Time, Living, Now)
"No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Art, Will, Word)
"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Poetry, Work, Creation, Mind, Poets, Production)
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."
- Lascelles Abercrombie
(Related: Society, Development, Repetition, Will)
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Land, State, Talking)
"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Talking)
"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Land, Now)
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Land, Ownership)
"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Opportunity, Queen)
"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Money, Land, Worth)
"Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Ideas, Land, Old)
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Control, First, Saying)
"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
- Neil Abercrombie
(Related: Interest, Public)
"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: State)
"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: Men, Time, Christ, May, Will, Words)
"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Experience, Time)
"It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Cause, Community, Effort, Future, Iraq, Now)
"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People, America, Authority, Blame, states, United, World)
"Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Will)
"So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Environment, Violence, Will)
"In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Cause, Enemy, Words)
"We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Government, Quality, Present, Will)
"Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Goal, Iraq, Nation, Security)
"Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Military)
"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Military)
"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Security, Will)
"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Accomplishment, Duty, Fact, May, Security, Today)
"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Leadership, Key)
"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People)
"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People, Country, Future, Result, Violence, Will)
"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Work, Information)
"Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Time, People, May, Talk)
"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Boss, Defeat, Defense, Nothing, Osama bin laden, Planning, states, United)
"I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people."
- John Abizaid
(Related: People, Control, Iraq, Key, Military, Needs, Understanding)
"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."
- John Abizaid
(Related: Change, Business, Being, Day, Environment)
"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."
- Edmond About
(Related: France)
"It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot."
- Edmond About
(Related: Men, Country, Information, Opinions, Question, states)
"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."
- Edmond About
(Related: Conversation, Danger, Name)
"I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it."
- F. Murray Abraham
"Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Choice, First, Kitchen, Painting)
"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Actor, English, Language, Man, Now, Talk, Trying)
"I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Time)
"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, War, Idea, Israel, Pretty, Thinking, World)
"If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Men, Children, Fight, Kids, Strangers, Want)
"Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Success, Character, Performance)
"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Son, Act, First, Russia)
"With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?"
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Music, Film, Literature, Words)
"Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Power, Man, Quiet, Sense)
"I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Man, Miracles, Talk, Want)
"All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Work)
"Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri."
- F. Murray Abraham
"I'm a very proud actor."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Actor)
"I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Brothers, Military, Want)
"I love parties. I love a good time."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, Time)
"I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Work)
"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Creativity, Spiritual)
"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Home, Trust, Kids, President, Will)
"I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Beginning, President)
"I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: President, Vietnam, Wrong)
"As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Fact, Man, Old, Preparation)
"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
- Karl Abraham
(Related: Work)
"I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: Hearing, May, Sound)
"Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: American, Doubt, Foreign relations, Historians, Years)
"The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: Memory)
"Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those."
- Spencer Abraham
(Related: America, Being)
"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: Dream, Magic)
"You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values."
- Peter Abrahams
(Related: History, People, Values, Culture, Illusion, Man)
"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Career, Effort)
"Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Harm, Mistakes, Regret, Sorrow, Will, Words)
"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Business)
"In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Man, Past, Years)
"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: History, Legal)
"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Hope, Will)
"As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Clients, Result)
"There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Performance, Want)
"My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Music, Favorite, Jazz, Listening, Queen, Singing)
"You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Music, People, Jazz, Want)
"I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Music, Computer, Fun)
"I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Love, Listening, Right, Song, Voice)
"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Music, Hope, America, Body)
"I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Idea, America, Fact, Vote)
"I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Car, Fact)
"In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'."
- Casey Abrams
(Related: Time)
"They can say I have an opinion about something."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: Opinion)
"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: People, Hope)
"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: People, Talking)
"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: End, Talk)
"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: People, Day)
"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: People, Will)
"I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias."
- Dan Abrams
"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."
- Elliott Abrams
(Related: Idea)
"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Day, Defense, Effect, End, Law, Question)
"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Decision, Circumstances, First, Interest)
"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Police, Right)
"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Winning, Battle, Chance, Law, State)
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Work, People, Police)
"Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather."
- Floyd Abrams
"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Books, Lawyers)
"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Books, Law, Sense)
"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Will)
"I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, Idea, Press, Public, Thinking, Will, Wind)
"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Public)
"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Judges, Opponents, Question, Thinking)
"I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Fact)
"No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, Burden, Country, Protection, World)
"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: America, First, Freedom, Law, Living, Memory, Press)
"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, Thought, Court, Respect)
"I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Deals, Now, Problems, Years)
"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Facts, Freedom, Principles, Speech)
"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Baseball, Learning)
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Law, Press, Public, Right, Years)
"It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Winning, Facts, Judges, Law, Lawyers, Losing)
"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: People, Perception, Doubt, Police, Public, Talk, Word)
"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Government, War, Post, Study, Vietnam, Washington)
"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: First, Rights, Preaching)
"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
- Floyd Abrams
(Related: Fight, Will)
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: People, Effect, Will)
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: History, Ideas, Leading, Spirits)
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Ability, Environment, Military, Sound, Tests, Voice)
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Theories)
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Help, Key, Metaphors, Perceptions)
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Body)
"If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false."
- M. H. Abrams
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
- M. H. Abrams
(Related: Survival, Humanity, Will)
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
(Related: Poor)
"It is never very crowded at the front."
- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
"I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Play)
"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Eyes, Open)
"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Father, Sons)
"I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami."
- Victoria Abril
"My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Boys, Friends)
"I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dress, Makeup, Sun)
"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dancing, Film)
"My first vocation was dance."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dance, First, Vocation)
"I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Dance, Dancing, Forget, Night, School)
"I really wanted to work and become independent."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work)
"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Gain, Weight)
"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Career)
"Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work, Dancing, Pain)
"Acting is the work of two people-it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Work, People, Acting, Help, Manipulation)
"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Clothes, First)
"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Day)
"I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Men)
"The director had come to Madrid to court me."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Court)
"The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting."
- Victoria Abril
"The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Film, Luck)
"There's nothing more human than two people making love."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Nothing)
"When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Family, Film)
"When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Character, Voice)
"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Age, Passion)
"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries."
- Victoria Abril
(Related: Love, People, Television)
"I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee."
- Bella Abzug
(Related: Coffee, Identity, Meeting)
"The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened."
- Bella Abzug
(Related: Men)
"TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Nothing, Words)
"Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating."
- Goodman Ace
(Related: Eating, Moon)
"I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one."
- Goodman Ace
"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Money, Virtue, Career, First, Pleasure, Woman, Writer)
"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: People)
"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Politics, Courtship)
"It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early."
- Marcel Achard
(Related: Home, Marriage, Man, Risk)
"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Habit, Leaders)
"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Idea, Diversity)
"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Experience, Nothing)
"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Democracy, Years)
"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: Art, Effort, Man, Order, Reality)
"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
- Chinua Achebe
(Related: People, Purpose, Journey, Leaders, World)
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: History, Thought, People, Enemies, Freedom)
"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Office, Public, Will)
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Art, Past, Present)
"Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed."
- Dean Acheson
"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
- Dean Acheson
(Related: Cooperation, Nations, United)
"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Fiction, Literature, Writers)
"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Traveling)
"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Students)
"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Love, Society, Act)
"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship, Country)
"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Censorship)
"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Right, Understanding)
"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Fear)
"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Time, Jazz, Writing)
"You can do whatever you want with my work."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work, Want)
"You know I've had work banned."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Work)
"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Government, Culture, Literary, Talk)
"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Idea, Voice)
"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Being, Language)
"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Men)
"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Voice)
"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Dreams, People, Writing)
"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: People, Hurt)
"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
- Kathy Acker
(Related: Country)
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Life, End, Want)
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Country, End, Lies, Mystery, Will)
"Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret."
- Diane Ackerman
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Love)
"We live on the leash of our senses."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Senses)
"I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Family, Thought, Decision, Congress, Debate)
"I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Rules)
"No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Vote)
"We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: Congress)
"We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here."
- Gary Ackerman
(Related: America, Rules, World)
"I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Christian, Church, Bible, Beliefs)
"I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely!'"
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Hair, Past)
"The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'"
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Christmas, Thinking)
"I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Love, Old)
"I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: God, Wrong)
"I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Jokes, Sound)
"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Father, Actor, Job, Months, School, Theater)
"When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Friends, School)
"When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that."
- Jensen Ackles
"I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Time, First, Girls)
"What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Life, People, Acting, Meeting)
"Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue."
- Peter Ackroyd
(Related: Events, Killing, Will)
"The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time."
- Harold Acton
(Related: Time, Fiction)
"So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it."
- Harold Acton
"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
- John Acton
(Related: History, Suffering, Wrong)
"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
- John Acton
(Related: Men)
"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
- John Acton
(Related: Government, Power, People, Authority, Choices, Democracy, Fate, Principles, Tradition)
"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
- John Acton
(Related: Nature, Force, Nothing, World)
"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
- John Acton
(Related: Control, Liberty, Prevention)
"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."
- John Acton
(Related: Mother, Being, Constitution, Country, Democracy, English, Revolution, Opposition, Result, states, Traditions, United)
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
- John Acton
(Related: Authority, Custom, Duty, Influence, Liberty, Man, Opinion)
"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."
- John Acton
(Related: Time, Success, Action, Nations, Past, World)
"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
- John Acton
(Related: Being, Conscience, Duty, Free will, Liberty, Safety, Sin)
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Society, Morality, Consequences, Evil, Man, Misfortune, Poor, Property, Right)
"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Content)
"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Justice, Nothing, Publicity)
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Money, Artist)
"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Nothing, Today)
"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Faith, Government, Profession, Public, Teaching)
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
- Lord Acton
(Related: History, Men, Power, Control)
"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Nature, Force, Nothing, World)
"Socialism means slavery."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Slavery, Socialism)
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Class, Danger)
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
- Lord Acton
(Related: People, Banks, Will)
"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Argument)
"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Authority, Country, Duty, Man, Right, Spirit, State)
"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Democracy, Elections, Evil, Force, Fraud, Majority, Party, Tyranny)
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Politics, Power, Science, Experience, History, Knowledge, Action, Future, Gold, Past)
"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Development, Ignorance, Will)
"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Soul, Eye, Smile)
"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
- Lord Acton
(Related: Life, Past, Satisfaction)
"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."
- Roy Acuff
(Related: Defeat, Democrats)
"The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them."
- John Adair
(Related: Leader, Blind)
"I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out."
- Red Adair
(Related: Devil)
"I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery."
- Red Adair
(Related: Home, Friends)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
- Red Adair
(Related: Job)
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control."
- Red Adair
(Related: Control, Hurt, Smile, World)
"Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to."
- Arthur Adamov
(Related: Misery, Want)
"Things always happen in series."
- Arthur Adamov
"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
- Arthur Adamov
(Related: Pleasure)
"The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis."
- Arthur Adamov
(Related: Neurosis)
"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Intelligence)
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Rest, World)
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Power)
"Great necessities call out great virtues."
- Abigail Adams
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Life, Action, Man)
"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Attention, Care, Ladies, Laws, Rebellion, Voice, Will)
"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Women, Heroes)
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Mother, Thought, Knowledge, Daughters)
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Wisdom, Experience, Leisure, Retirement)
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Actions, Words)
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
- Abigail Adams
(Related: Power, Grave, Man)
"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Experience, Appetite, Problems, Sound, Television)
"Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Life, Gold, Man)
"My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Day, Key, Public)
"I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Success, Importance, Mission, Press)
"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Failure, Diplomacy, Public)
"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Power, Help, Rumor)
"Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Government, Fear, Attitude, Press, Suspicion, Workers)
"I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster."
- Amy Adams
(Related: People, Acting, Holly)
"I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Quality, People, Forget, Pretty, Revenge)
"When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!"
- Amy Adams
(Related: Nature, Time, Being, First, Hair, Personality)
"I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Ego, Kids)
"I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled."
- Amy Adams
(Related: People, Attitude, Positive, Attention)
"I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Love, Body, Help)
"I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Happiness, Life, Family, Success, Awards, Friends)
"How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Trust, Work, Character, Writers)
"As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it."
- Amy Adams
(Related: People, Will)
"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Soul)
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Intention, May, Meaning, Photography, Present, World)
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Government, Environment, Fight)
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: God)
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Ability, Chance, Eye, Feeling, Mind, Practice, Sense, Sight, Will)
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People, Old, Walking, Windows, Years)
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Eye, Meaning, Word)
"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Love, Thought, Reality, Spirit)
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Perception, Execution, Expression, Infinite, Photography, Variety)
"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Art, Ideas, Communication, Photography)
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People)
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Negative, Performance)
"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Possibilities)
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Experience, Time, Wisdom, Exploration)
"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop."
- Ansel Adams
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Nature, Humanity)
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Men, Confidence, Emotions, Man, Perceptions, Right, Spirit)
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Space, Wonder)
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Negative, Performance)
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Men, Creation, Fight, Force, Originality, Spirit)
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Life, Spirit, Universe)
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: People)
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit."
- Ansel Adams
(Related: Art, Experience, Nature, History, Science, Man, Moods, Spirit, World)
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Friendship, Life, Thought, Community, Needs, Rivalry)
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics, Practice, Profession)
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Difference, Influence)
"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Life, Consequences, Trying)
"I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Music, Successful, Job, Play)
"There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Now, Right, Saying, Songs)
"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
- Charles Adams
(Related: Taxes)
"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
- Charles Kendall Adams
(Related: Success, Greatness, Excellence)
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."
- Charles Kendall Adams
(Related: Success)
"In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished."
- Charles Kendall Adams
(Related: Heart, Columbus, Fire, Old, World)
"I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again."
- Don Adams
(Related: Time, Wife, Church)
"I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much."
- Don Adams
(Related: Support)
"I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion."
- Don Adams
(Related: Wife, Name, Quick, Study)
"I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."
- Don Adams
(Related: School)
"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."
- Douglas Adams
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Thought, Possibility, Mind)
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Bizarre, Inexplicable, states, Theory, Universe, Will)
"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
- Douglas Adams
"Life is wasted on the living."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Life, Living)
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Reality)
"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Conversation, Difficulty, Trees)
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: May, Mind, Road, Space)
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: May)
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Mistake, Problems)
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Fairies, Garden)
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: People, Beginning, Universe)
"If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves."
- Douglas Adams
"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Thought, Fact, Mind, Misleading, Obvious, Popular)
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: People, Fact, Job, President, Want)
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Love, Sound)
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Experience, Ability, Remarkable)
"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Wife)
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Afterlife, Contradiction)
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Family, Possibility)
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Money, Integrity, Service, Sincerity)
"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Normality)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
- Douglas Adams
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Job, President)
"You aren't going to leave me alone are you?"
- Edie Adams
"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)
"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)
"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)
"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)
"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Life, May)
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Successful, Applause, Care, Encouragement, Famous, Man, May, Woman)
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Time, Waste)
"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Effect, Talking, Trees, Will)
"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Goals, Winning, Building, Ireland, Objectives, Republican, Support)
"We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Agreement)
"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: People, Freedom, Irish, Pursuit, Unity)
"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Ability, Challenge, Problems, Republican, Responsibility, Will)
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Courage, Determination, Freedom, Struggle)
"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Leadership, Time, Agreement, Army, Objectives)
"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Peace, Example)
"Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Objectives, Potential, Republican)
"Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Courage, Decisions, Future, Now, Past, Will)
"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Inequality)
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Agreement, Rights, London)
"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Leadership, Army, Commitment, Irish, Republican)
"The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Time, Agreement, First, Months)
"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Peace, Irish, Republicans)
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Battle, Day, Deals, Eyes, Rights, Human rights, Key, Open, Patience, Republican, Will)
"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: War, Peace)
"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Power, Irish, Will)
"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Blind, Eye, Oppression, Past, Right, Struggle)
"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Leadership, Peace, Ability, Justice, Play, Popular)
"For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Government, Ireland, Years)
"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Example, Republicans)
"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Equality, Change, Ending, Potential, Want)
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Thought, Words)
"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Life, Wealth, Infinite, Summer)
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Faith, History, Wrong)
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Difference, Influence)
"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Men, Passion)
"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Grave, Man)
"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Politics)
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Politics, Practice)
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Simplicity)
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: American, President, Sea)
"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Men, Power, Effect, Killing, Publicity, Self)
"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Trust, Purpose, Lies, Nothing, Press)
"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Progress, Evolution, President, Washington)
"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Intelligence)
"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Friendship, Life, Thought, Community, Needs, Rivalry)
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Years)
"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Absence, Liberty, Responsibility, Restraint)
"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."
- Henry B. Adams
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Thought, Man, Words)
"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Morality, Luxury)
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Taste)
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Purpose)
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Faith, Intelligence, Man)
"Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Heart, Divinity, Effort, Lies, Man, Woman)
"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Goodness)
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Science, Power, Day, Existence, Mankind, May, Race, Suicide, World)
"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
- Herbert Baxter Adams
(Related: Men, Work, Ambition, Class, Motive, Spirit, Students, Will)
"I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Chicago)
"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
- Jack Adams
(Related: American, Fact)
"We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles."
- Jack Adams
"The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Islands, May)
"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Effect, Islands, News)
"Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Force, Islands, Mission, Sea)
"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Men, Fighting)
"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Advice)
"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
- Jack Adams
(Related: June, Navy, Parents)
"Everybody knew that I could type pretty well."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Pretty)
"Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Business, Advertising, Earth, Man, Reason)
"The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: People, Advertising, Trouble)
"Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Intelligence, Advertising, Insult, Respect, Worth)
"If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Advertising, Public, Respect)
"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold."
- James Randolph Adams
(Related: Beauty, Men, Advertising, Forget)
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Living)
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Life, Attitude, Discovery, Man, Mind)
"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Age, Thought, Discipline, Value)
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Attitude, Voice)
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Life, Belief, Fact, Help, Living, Will, Worth)
"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."
- James Truslow Adams
(Related: Fault, Rest)
"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Kiss, Fool)
"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Day)
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Marriage)
"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Exercise, Fact)
"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Temptation, Will, Worry)
"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."
- Joey Adams
(Related: Wife, Nothing, Questions)
"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."
- Joey Lauren Adams
(Related: Genius, Living)
"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."
- Joey Lauren Adams
(Related: Name, Pain, Passion, Sound, Want)
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
- John Adams
(Related: Design, America, Earth, Mankind, Providence, Wonder)
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams
(Related: Democracy, Suicide)
"I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate."
- John Adams
(Related: Children, Fate, May, Mind, Ruin)
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams
(Related: Politics, War, Liberty, Mathematics, May, Philosophy, Sons, Study)
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Now, Years)
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."
- John Adams
(Related: People, Hope, Freedom, Now, Talk, Thinking, Will, Writing, Years)
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Power, Trust, Danger, Liberty, Living, Man, Maxim, Public)
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
- John Adams
(Related: Mankind, Service)
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
- John Adams
(Related: Living)
"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
- John Adams
(Related: Men, Blind, Fate, Nation, Nations)
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Happiness, Society, End)
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Control)
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
- John Adams
(Related: People, Knowledge, Liberty)
"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams
(Related: Aristocracy, Democracy, Suicide)
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
- John Adams
(Related: Facts, May, State, Wishes)
"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
- John Adams
(Related: Fear)
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
- John Adams
(Related: Power, God, Laws, Service)
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
- John Adams
(Related: Power, Soul)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, People, Constitution, Religious)
"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
- John Adams
(Related: Imagination, Country, Invention, Man, Office)
"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
- John Adams
(Related: Imagination, Charm, Eye, Wonder)
"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws."
- John Adams
(Related: Law, Laws, Support)
"A government of laws, and not of men."
- John Adams
(Related: Government, Men, Laws)
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
- John Adams
(Related: Society, Abuse, Party, Words)
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
- John Adams
(Related: Nature, Virtue, America, Confusion, Constitution, Credit, Honor, Ignorance, Want)
"As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children."
- John Adams
(Related: Love, Admiration, Birds, Children, Heroes)
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."
- John Adams
(Related: Heart, Desire, Man)
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Perseverance, Difficulties, Effect, Obstacles, Patience)
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Courage, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles)
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: May, Reflection, Vote)
"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Men, Honesty, Folly)
"Where annual elections end where slavery begins."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Elections, End, Slavery)
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Hope, Freedom, Will)
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Power, People, Maxim)
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Government, Christianity, American, Revolution, Glory, Principles)
"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."
- Maude Adams
(Related: May, Play, Present)
"Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Successful, Day, Succeed)
"I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Mind)
"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Life, Failure, Day, Fighting, Satisfaction)
"If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Traditions)
"I had very little confidence in myself as an actress."
- Maude Adams
(Related: Confidence)
"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
- Phillip Adams
(Related: Men, Advertising, Politicians)
"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
- Phillip Adams
(Related: Internet, Mind, states)
"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
- Phillip Adams
(Related: Success)
"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Trying)
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Science, Religion, Heart, Belief, Atoms, Lies, Novelty, Popular, Radical, Rejection, Stars)
"I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women."
- Richard Adams
(Related: Women, Majority, Now, Will, Years)
"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
- Robert Adams
(Related: Film, Night, Sleep)
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
- Robert Adams
(Related: Television)
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Nature, Power, Authority, Earth, Law, Liberty, Man, Will)
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Earth, Liberty, Mankind, Religious)
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Feelings, Mankind, Reason)
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Men, Freedom, Majority, Minority)
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: People, Majority, Minority)
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Meaning, Tools, Will)
"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Life, Country, Feeling, Man, Will)
"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Business, Events)
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: Constitution, Country, Duty, Freedom, Worth)
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: People, Constitution, states, United)
"We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal."
- Samuel Hopkins Adams
(Related: Time, Sympathy, Living)
"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Knowledge, Key)
"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People, Difference, Profit)
"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People)
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Success, Successful, Failure, Goal)
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Public, Stupidity)
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems)
"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Forgiveness, Nothing, Revenge)
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Act, End, Kindness)
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Art, Creativity, Mistakes)
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Numbers, Universe)
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Life, People, Fact)
"The longer you work here, diverse it gets."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Work)
"Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams."
- Scott Adams
"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems, Will)
"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People, Free will, Illusion, Pleasure)
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Cause, Company, Information, Problems)
"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Work, Company, Credibility, Dumb)
"I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
- Scott Adams
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Trouble, Unix)
"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Women, Car)
"Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary."
- Will Adams
(Related: Art, Being, Geometry, Grace, Mathematics, Now, Reason, Understanding)
"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
- Will Adams
(Related: Years)
"If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised."
- Will Adams
(Related: War, God, Heart, Death, Cause, Countries)
"In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature."
- Will Adams
(Related: Nature, Wife, Children, Conscience, End, Land, Poor, Years)
"Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?"
- Joy Adamson
(Related: Responsibility)
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, Pretty)
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, World)
"It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden."
- Robert Adamson
"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Example, Poems)
"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Books, Living, Pretty, Writing)
"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Encouraging, Poets, State, Visit, Writing)
"If you've wrecked one train, you've wrecked them all."
- Charles Samuel Addams
"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Patriotism, Hope, Affection, Interest, Nation)
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Life)
"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Result)
"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Women, Feet, Old)
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Men, Civilization, Attitude, Living, Respect)
"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."
- Jane Addams
(Related: Home, America, Future, School, Will)
"To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Amusement, Man, Pleasure)
"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Faith, Atheism, Measure)
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Glory, Man)
"That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Father, Man, Misery, Motive, Will)
"Jesters do often prove prophets."
- Joseph Addison
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Morality, Authority, Fact, Obvious, Religious)
"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Death, People, Fear)
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Friendship, Enjoyment)
"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: First, Hunger, Lust)
"The post of honour is a private station."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Post)
"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Happiness, Virtue, Enemy, Suspicion, Will)
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Happiness, Life, Love, Hope)
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Sight)
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Lady)
"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Advice, Nothing)
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Constancy, Courtship)
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity)
"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Life, Calamity, Grief, Humanity, Treatment)
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Experience, Life, Brother, Genius, Friend, Hope, Perseverance, Caution, Succeed)
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Heart, Laughter, Man, May, Mirth)
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Dream, Hope, Act, Shadow)
"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Despair, Will)
"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)
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Man, Sense, Words)
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wonder)
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Imagination, Soul, Idea, Curiosity, Pleasure)
"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Age, Censure, Folly, Man, Persecution, Weakness, World)
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wisdom, Men, Animals, Lies, Sons)
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Admiration, Passion)
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wedding, Advice, Clothes, Woman)
"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Observation, World, Worth, Writer)
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Truth, Virtue, Man)
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Talent, Eloquence, Man, Modesty)
"A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Blessings, Day, Influence)
"What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Country, Pity)
"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Affliction, Prosperity)
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Age, Men, Forget, Old)
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Men, Circumstances, Enemies)
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Flowers, Humanity, Smiles, Trifles)
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Life, Living, Reading)
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: People, Wishes)
"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Greatness, Country, Heaven, Man, Wrath)
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Friendship, Happiness, Conversation, Enjoyment, First, Self)
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Legal, Authority, Oppression)
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Love, Pain, Treasure)
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Nature, Human nature, Inconsistency, Temper, Weakness)
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Music, Heaven)
"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Virtue, Modesty)
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Force, Justice, Violence)
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Blessings, Disappointments, Patience)
"One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach."
- George Ade
(Related: Ivy, Man, Poison)
"Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense."
- George Ade
(Related: Nothing, Past)
"For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver."
- George Ade
(Related: Life)
"Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant."
- George Ade
(Related: Neighbors)
"A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words."
- George Ade
(Related: Man, Words)
"A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative."
- George Ade
(Related: Time, Friend, May)
"I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Thought, People, Dance, Class, Talking)
"It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Funny, People, Dance)
"No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Artist, Singing, Want)
"My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be."
- Naima Adedapo
(Related: Impression, Performance, Confidence, First)
"Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire."
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Intention, Planning)
"I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1."
- Sheldon Adelson
"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"
- Sheldon Adelson
(Related: Business, Change)
"The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror."
- Konrad Adenauer
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: Intelligence, God, Fact, Man, Stupidity)
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: History)
"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."
- Konrad Adenauer
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
- Konrad Adenauer
(Related: Body, Tongue)
"Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher."
- Konrad Adenauer
"In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles."
- Kate Adie
"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Life, Censorship, Fact, Military, Press, Right, Struggle)
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Now, Years)
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Democracy, Information, Secrecy, Silence)
"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, People, Support, Zone)
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Information, Ireland, Irish, Media, Question, Right)
"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."
- Kate Adie
(Related: People, Heart, Job)
"It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Life, Thought, People, Being, Day, Famous, Merit, Name, Now)
"I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Life, Heart)
"I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at."
- Kate Adie
"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Progress, Being, School)
"But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, Being, First, Freedom, Information, Iraq, Justification, Nations, Right, Soldiers, United)
"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Danger, Protection)
"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Fiction, Judges)
"I will never retire."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Will)
"I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Gossip, Media, Want)
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Violence)
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Nothing)
"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Marriage, Time, Church, England, Girls, School, University, Woman)
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Mountains)
"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."
- Kate Adie
(Related: War, Appearance, Complaining, Hair)
"You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Order, Risk)
"I think that we all carry the divine within us."
- Isabelle Adjani
"Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Peace, Boredom)
"But no one frees himself from being in love in three days."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Being)
"I believe in angels, so it's simple."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Angels)
"I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Work, Positive)
"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Fear, Being)
"You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Being)
"To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: People, Attention, Needs)
"There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Admiration, Joy)
"There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Change, Experience, Death, People, Fear)
"Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Passion, Pleasure, Violence)
"One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Time, Success)
"One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Control, Risk, Suffering)
"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Feelings)
"I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness."
- Isabelle Adjani
"If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Life, Career, Passion, Today, Years)
"In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Love, Promises)
"One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Nothing)
"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: College)
"Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: Now)
"I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah."
- Hasil Adkins
"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Superiority)
"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Death, People, Progress, Humanity)
"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Conquest, Feeling)
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: People)
"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Nature, Peace, Science, Soul, Goal, Being, Human nature, Mind, Understanding)
"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Work, Society, Sex, Behavior)
"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Truth, Lie, Sense)
"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Love, Law, Man, Mankind, Years)
"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: War, Enemy, Future, states)
"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Agitation, Being, Conquest, Feeling)
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Truth, Lie, Aggression, Murder)
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Lie, Country, Duty, Man)
"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Fate)
"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Truth, Cure, Freedom, Responsibility, Tears)
"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Inferiority, Expression, Feeling)
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: God, Soul, Goal, Cosmos, Man, Perfection, Stars)
"In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Family, Life, Investigation, Style)
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Fight, Principles)
"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Art, Experience, Power, Potential)
"It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Measure, Wishes)
"Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations."
- Alfred Adler
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Neglect)
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler
(Related: Fight, Principles)
"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Criticism, Learning, Literature, Will)
"For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Faith, Men, Years)
"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Action, Past)
"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Office, Public)
"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Thought, Progress, Diversity, Freedom, Intellect, Man, Right, Will)
"The family is the school of duties - founded on love."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Family, Love, School)
"The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Meeting)
"The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole."
- Felix Adler
"FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Legal, Time, Community, Conviction, Day, Prejudice, Rest)
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Virtue, Public)
"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Life, Desire, Gain, Possession, World)
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Faith, Religion, Improvement)
"Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Time, People, Country, Evening, Independence, May)
"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Experience, Intellect)
"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Legal, Knowledge, Desire, Information, Law, Order, Writers)
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
- Felix Adler
(Related: People, Civilization, Wealth, Attention, Country, Labor)
"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Fashion)
"Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Love, Country, Woman)
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Religion, Church, Purity, State)
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Consideration, Custom, Force, Interest, Meeting, Public)
"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Change, Heart, Conformity, Contradiction, Laws, Man, Needs, Order)
"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Control, Chivalry, Justification, May)
"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Morality, Behavior, Culture)
"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Crime)
"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Experience, Perceptions)
"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
- Freda Adler
(Related: Knowledge)
"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Love)
"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Desire, Lust, Pleasure, Self, Wrong)
"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, People, Wonder)
"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Choice, Interest, Man, Woman)
"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Leisure)
"Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Instinct)
"Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love)
"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Time, Talk)
"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Friendship, Love, Mother, Example)
"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, English, Names)
"Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Joy)
"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, God, Belief, Christian, World)
"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Duty, Mind)
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Growth, Purpose, Learning)
"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Scientists, Theories)
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Earth, Justice)
"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Education, Happiness, Life, End, Enjoyment, Possession, Satisfaction)
"Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Lonely)
"We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Truth, Heart, End, May, Motive, Will)
"We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others."
- Mortimer Adler
"We love even when our love is not requited."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love)
"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Care, Difference, Justice, World)
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Time, Mind, Nothing, Order)
"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Meaning, Questions)
"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Giving, Pleasure)
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Effort, Reading)
"Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Being, Sense)
"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Immortality, Wishes)
"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Men, Ideas, Ants, Pursuit)
"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Lust, Pleasure, Sexuality, Want)
"Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Men, Pleasure, Value)
"Love without conversation is impossible."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Conversation)
"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
- Renata Adler
(Related: Life, Quality, People, Community, Nothing)
"No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document."
- Renata Adler
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
- Renata Adler
(Related: World)
"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Work, Actor, Body, Mind, Voice)
"You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences."
- Stella Adler
"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Ideas, Actors)
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Art, Life, Soul)
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Imagination, Scientists)
"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Sense, World)
"I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family."
- Steven Adler
(Related: Family, God, Being, Support)
"I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller."
- Steven Adler
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Death, People, Humanity)
"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Harm, Man, Spirit)
"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Modernity)
"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Strength, May, Will)
"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Power)
"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Lies, Opinion)
"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Choice)
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, Man, Tomorrow, Waiting, Yesterday)
"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Work, Quality)
"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Discrimination, Tact)
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Age, Individuality, Question)
"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Exploitation, Laws)
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Art, Truth, Lie, Being, Magic)
"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Art, Folk)
"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Art, Work, Crime)
"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Violence)
"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Life, Despair)
"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Man, Writing)
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Art, Right)
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society, State)
"Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Advice)
"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Happiness, Thought)
"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Lie)
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thought, Now, Problems)
"The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality."
- Theodor Adorno
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Responsibility, Wrong)
"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, State)
"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Time, Money, Consideration)
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Society, Ideology, Interest, Risk)
"He who matures early lives in anticipation."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Anticipation)
"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Harm, Past)
"If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Ideology, Pride)
"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Life, Wrong)
"There is no love that is not an echo."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Love, Echo)
"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Thoughts)
"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Truth, Belief, Day, Will)
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Work, Play, Self)
"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Discipline, Poor, Thinking)
"Nothing has been given to me."
- Freddy Adu
(Related: Nothing)
"Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Countries, Country, Fate, World)
"Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Now, Old, Will, Years)
"There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Time, Disasters)
"The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Work, Survival, Country, Will)
"Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Time, Progress, Country, Present)
"Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Content, Evil, Goodness)
"The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Government, Society, Work, Survival, Direction, Majority, Nation)
"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: Self)
"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Foreigners)
"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Affection)
"In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: History, Time, Unity)
"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Related: People, Difficulties, Past, Years)
"For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased."
- Aeschines
(Related: Men, Laws, Will)
"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"
- Aeschylus
(Related: Time, Gods, Pain)
"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Disease, Friends, Tyranny)
"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Death, Children, Fame, Man)
"I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils."
- Aeschylus
"Excessive fear is always powerless."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Fear)
"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Blame, Quick)
"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Destiny, Man)
"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Death, Life)
"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Drinking, Water, Will)
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Light, Trouble)
"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Harm, Judgment, Right, Vote)
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trust, Heart, Friend, Poison)
"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Friends, Oil, Opponents)
"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Deeds, Evil, Man, Profit, Shame, Will, Word)
"God always strives together with those who strive."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God)
"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Disease, Hate, Treachery)
"His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be."
- Aeschylus
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Wisdom, God, Heart, Despair, Forget, Grace, Pain, Sleep, Will)
"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."
- Aeschylus
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Help)
"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Thoughts, Evil)
"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Men, Victory, Passion)
"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Trouble)
"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Guilt)
"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Ruin, Sense, Want)
"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Power)
"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."
- Aeschylus
(Related: God, Haste, Man)
"What good is it to live a life that brings pains?"
- Aeschylus
(Related: Life)
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Concern, Man, Woman)
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Men, Friend, Character, Envy, Honor)
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Men, Wisdom, Old)
"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Prosperity)
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Man)
"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Fate, Justice)
"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Blood)
"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Misfortune, Painting)
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Calamity)
"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Happiness, Free will, Ruin)
"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Harm, Silence)
"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Pride, Self, Will)
"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Prosperity)
"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Experience, Fate, Force, Friends, Man, Will)
"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Living)
"Know not to revere human things too much."
- Aeschylus
"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Life, God, Anarchy, Excellence, Lies, Praise)
"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Love, Nature, Man, Right, Woman)
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
(Related: Trust, Advice, Difficulties, Man)
"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
- Aesop
(Related: People)
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
(Related: Act, Kindness)
"United we stand, divided we fall."
- Aesop
(Related: United)
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."
- Aesop
(Related: Fire, Water)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
(Related: Office, Public)
"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."
- Aesop
(Related: Comfort)
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
- Aesop
(Related: Force, Wind)
"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop
(Related: Imagination, Success, Act, Kindness)
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."
- Aesop
(Related: Content, First)
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
- Aesop
(Related: Destruction, Enemies)
"Appearances are often deceiving."
- Aesop
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
- Aesop
(Related: Will)