The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
~By Jim Valvano ~
When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
~By David Baltimore ~
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
~By Barbara Pym ~
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
~By Arlen Specter ~
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.
~By William Taylor ~
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
~By Dolley Madison ~
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
~By Margaret Cho ~
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
~By Paracelsus ~
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
~By Charles Simmons ~
I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
~By Robert McChesney ~
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
~By Meriwether Lewis ~
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
~By Alfred E. Smith ~
We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
~By Herb Kohl ~
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
~By George Sand ~
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
~By Ovid ~
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.
~By Julie Bishop ~
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
~By Jacques Delors ~
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
~By Thomas Love Peacock ~
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
~By Emile Zola ~
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
~By John McCain ~
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
~By Hernando Cortez ~
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
~By Adolf Loos ~
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
~By George Berkeley ~
I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
~By Gary Sinise ~
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
~By Bill Blass ~
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
~By Letty Cottin Pogrebin ~
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
~By William Dean Howells ~
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
~By Paul Farmer ~
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
~By William Bligh ~
Absence - that common cure of love.
~By Lord Byron ~
I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
~By Barry Gibb ~
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
~By Spike Milligan ~
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
~By William Christopher Handy ~
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
~By David Hume ~
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
~By Henri Nouwen ~
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
~By Mose Allison ~
Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
~By Evan Bayh ~
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
~By Emily Bronte ~
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
~By Sophocles ~
Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
~By Kim Cattrall ~
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
~By Ralph Nader ~
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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.
~By Felix Adler ~
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
~By Roy Moore ~
I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.
~By Evan Dando ~
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
~By Charley Reese ~
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
~By Tom Allen ~
We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
~By Gene Tierney ~
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
~By Jim Cooper ~
I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.
~By George Pataki ~
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
~By Potter Stewart ~
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.
~By Thomas Perry ~
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
~By Barack Obama ~
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
~By Ron Reagan ~
I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
~By George Crook ~
There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.
~By Judith Light ~
But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
~By Jim Valvano ~
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