It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
~By Elihu Root ~
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
~By Billie Holiday ~
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
~By John Updike ~
A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.
~By Evan Parker ~
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.
~By Temple Grandin ~
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
~By Robert Casey ~
People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
~By Bill Weld ~
I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.
~By Nick Carter ~
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
~By Claude Chabrol ~
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.
~By Eric Bristow ~
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
~By David Joseph Schwartz ~
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
~By Katherine Graham ~
I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
~By Naomi Judd ~
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
~By Tom Cruise ~
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
~By Todd Akin ~
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
~By John Locke ~
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
~By Augustus Hare ~
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~By Charles Dickens ~
I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
~By George Will ~
Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
~By Scott Turow ~
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it.
~By David C. McClelland ~
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
~By James Shirley ~
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin.
~By Tobe Hooper ~
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
~By Hugh Hopper ~
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
~By Bob Riley ~
First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
~By George Washington ~
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
~By Menachem Begin ~
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
~By Evan Davis ~
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
~By William Shakespeare ~
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
~By Stephen Fry ~
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
~By James Callaghan ~
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
~By James Welch ~
I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
~By Ringo Starr ~
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
~By Arthur Golden ~
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I was on the abutment.
~By Abraham Zapruder ~
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.
~By Leland Stanford ~
After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
~By Christine Lahti ~
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
~By Barney Oliver ~
I tend to like very bitchy women. I find myself most attracted to smart, sarcastic, bitchy women.
~By Lea DeLaria ~
In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
~By John Prescott ~
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
~By Diogenes ~
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
~By Steve Irwin ~
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
~By Chanakya ~
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
~By Susan Sontag ~
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.
~By Sergei Bubka ~
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
~By Robert Barany ~
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
~By George Clooney ~
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
~By John Calvin ~
Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.
~By George William Norris ~
Woman is also the element of conflict.
~By Marcello Mastroianni ~
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
~By Mark Kirk ~
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
~By A. E. Housman ~
Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
~By Pat Boone ~
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.
~By Will Durst ~
Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
~By David Bowie ~
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
~By John Doerr ~
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
~By Richard Bach ~
I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.
~By Graham Russell ~
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