Famous Quotes By Erma Bombeck

 

1. A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
2. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
3. All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
4. Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
5. Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
6. Children make your life important.
7. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
8. Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
9. Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
10. God created man, but I could do better.
11. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
12. I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
13. I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
14. I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
15. I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
16. I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
17. If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
18. It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
19. It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
20. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
21. I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
22. Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
23. Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
24. Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
25. My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
26. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
27. Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
28. Never have more children than you have car windows.
29. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
30. Never order food in excess of your body weight.
31. Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
32. One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
33. Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
34. Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
35. Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
36. Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
37. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
38. There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
39. What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
40. When humor goes, there goes civilization.
41. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
42. Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
43. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Famous Quotes By Ernest Hemingway

 

1. A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
2. About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
3. All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
4. All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
5. An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
6. Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
7. Courage is grace under pressure.
8. Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
9. Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
10. Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
11. Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
12. For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
13. For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
14. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
15. Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
16. His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
17. I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
18. I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
19. I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
20. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
21. I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
22. If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
23. If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
24. In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
25. It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
26. Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
27. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
28. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
29. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
30. Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
31. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
32. Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
33. That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
34. That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
35. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
36. The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
37. The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
38. The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
39. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
40. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
41. There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
42. There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
43. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
44. They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
45. What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
46. When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
47. Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
48. Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Huxley

 

1. All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
2. Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
3. Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
4. Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
5. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
6. Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
7. History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
8. I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
9. I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
10. I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
11. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
12. If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
13. In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
14. In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
15. It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
16. It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
17. My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
18. My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
19. No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
20. No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
21. Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
22. Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
23. Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
24. Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
25. Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
26. Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
27. Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
28. Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
29. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
30. Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
31. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
32. Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
33. The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
34. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
35. The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
36. The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
37. The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
38. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
39. The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
40. The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
41. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
42. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
43. The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
44. The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
45. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
46. There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
47. Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
48. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Famous Quotes By James Madison

 

1. A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
2. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
3. A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
4. A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
5. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
6. A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
7. All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
8. Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
9. And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
10. Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
11. Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
12. I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
13. I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
14. If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
15. If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
16. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
17. In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
18. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
19. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
20. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
21. Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
22. Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
23. Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
24. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
25. Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
26. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
27. Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
28. The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
29. The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
30. The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
31. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
32. The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
33. The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
34. The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
35. The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
36. The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
37. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
38. The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
39. The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
40. The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
41. The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
42. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
43. To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
44. War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
45. War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
46. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
47. What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
48. Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
49. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
50. Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Famous Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

 

1. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
2. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
3. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
4. A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
5. Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
6. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
7. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
8. Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
9. Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
10. Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
11. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
12. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
13. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
14. For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
15. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
16. Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
17. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
18. I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
19. I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
20. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
21. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
22. In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
23. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
24. It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
25. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
26. Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
27. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
28. Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
29. No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
30. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
31. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
32. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
33. Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.
34. Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
35. The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
36. The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
37. The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
38. The government is us we are the government, you and I.
39. The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
40. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
41. The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
42. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
43. The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
44. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
45. There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
46. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
47. Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
48. When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
49. With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Famous Quotes By Lao Tzu

 

1. A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
2. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
3. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
4. All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
5. Because of a great love, one is courageous.
6. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
7. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
8. From caring comes courage.
9. Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
10. Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
11. Great acts are made up of small deeds.
12. Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
13. He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
14. Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
15. How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
16. I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
17. I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
18. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
19. If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
20. If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
21. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
22. It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
23. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
24. Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
25. Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
26. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
27. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
28. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
29. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
30. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
31. Nature is not human hearted.
32. Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
33. One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
34. People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
35. Silence is a source of great strength.
36. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.
37. The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
38. The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
39. The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
40. The words of truth are always paradoxical.
41. Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
42. To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
43. Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
44. Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.
45. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
46. When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.
47. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Famous Quotes By Michelle Obama

 

1. And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
2. And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.
3. As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
4. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
5. I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
6. I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
7. I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
8. I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
9. I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
10. I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.
11. I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
12. I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
13. If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
14. I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
15. Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.
16. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
17. Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
18. The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
19. The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
20. There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
21. Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
22. We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
23. We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
24. Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Famous Quotes By George Santayana

 

1. A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
2. A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
3. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
4. An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
5. Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
6. By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
7. Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
8. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
9. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
10. Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
11. For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
12. Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
13. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
14. Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
15. Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
16. History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
17. I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
18. Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
19. It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
20. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
21. It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
22. Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
23. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
24. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
25. Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
26. Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
27. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
28. Music is essentially useless, as is life.
29. Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
30. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
31. Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
32. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
33. Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
34. Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
35. That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
36. The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
37. The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
38. The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
39. The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
40. The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
41. The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
42. The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
43. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
44. The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
45. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
46. The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
47. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
48. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
49. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
50. To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
51. To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
52. We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
53. Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
54. When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.
55. Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Famous Quotes By Helen Keller

 

1. Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.
2. As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
3. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
4. Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
5. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
6. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
7. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
8. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
9. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
10. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
11. It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
12. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
13. It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
14. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
15. Knowledge is love and light and vision.
16. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
17. Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
18. Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
19. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
20. Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
21. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
22. My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
23. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
24. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
25. Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
26. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
27. Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
28. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
29. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
30. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
31. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
32. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
33. The highest result of education is tolerance.
34. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
35. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
36. True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
37. Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
38. Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
39. We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
40. What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
41. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
42. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
43. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Famous Quotes By Confucius

 

1. An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
2. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
3. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
4. Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.
5. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
6. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
7. He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
8. He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
9. He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
10. Heaven means to be one with God.
11. I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.
12. If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
13. If we don't know life, how can we know death?
14. If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
15. It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
16. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
17. Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
18. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
19. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
20. Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
21. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
22. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
23. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
24. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
25. Study the past, if you would divine the future.
26. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
27. The cautious seldom err.
28. The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
29. The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.
30. The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
31. The object of the superior man is truth.
32. The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
33. The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
34. The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.
35. The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.
36. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
37. There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
38. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
39. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
40. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
41. When anger rises, think of the consequences.
42. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
43. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
44. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
45. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
46. You cannot open a book without learning something.

Famous Quotes By George Orwell

 

1. A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
2. All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
3. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
4. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
5. Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
6. For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
7. Four legs good, two legs bad.
8. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
9. Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
10. Good writing is like a windowpane.
11. Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
12. He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
13. I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
14. If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
15. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
16. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
17. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
18. In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
19. It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
20. Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
21. Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
22. Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
23. Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
24. Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
25. No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
26. No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
27. Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
28. Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
29. On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
30. Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
31. Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
32. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
33. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
34. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
35. Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
36. Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
37. Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
38. The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
39. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
40. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
41. The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
42. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
43. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
44. There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
45. There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
46. To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
47. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
48. War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
49. War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
50. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
51. War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
52. We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
53. We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
54. We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
55. Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
56. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Famous Quotes By Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

1. As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.
2. Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
3. Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.
4. Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
5. Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
6. For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
7. Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
8. Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
9. I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
10. I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
11. I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
12. I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
13. I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
14. I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
15. I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
16. I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.
17. I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
18. I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?
19. I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republica
20. I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
21. I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.
22. I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.
23. If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
24. I'm not looking for sympathy at all.
25. In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
26. It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
27. Maria is the best reason to come home.
28. Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
29. My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
30. My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
31. My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
32. No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
33. One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
34. Political courage is not political suicide.
35. Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
36. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
37. The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.
38. The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
39. The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
40. To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.
41. We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
42. Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
43. When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
44. Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
45. You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Famous Quotes By Camille Paglia

 

1. A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
2. A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
3. All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
4. Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
5. American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
6. Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
7. Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
8. Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
9. Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
10. Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
11. Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
12. High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
13. I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
14. I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
15. I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
16. If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
17. In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
18. It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
19. Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
20. Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
21. Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
22. Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
23. Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
24. Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
25. Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
26. Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
27. The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
28. When anything goes, it's women who lose.
29. Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
30. Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
31. Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Paine

 

1. A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
2. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
3. Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
4. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
5. But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
6. Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
7. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
8. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.
9. He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
10. He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
11. Human nature is not of itself vicious.
12. I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
13. I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
14. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
15. Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
16. It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
17. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
18. It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
19. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
20. Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
21. One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
22. Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
23. Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
24. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.
25. Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
26. That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
27. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
28. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
29. The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
30. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
31. The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
32. The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
33. There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
34. These are the times that try men's souls.
35. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
36. Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
37. Time makes more converts than reason.
38. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
39. To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
40. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
41. War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
42. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
43. When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Famous Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

 

1. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
2. Actors are one family over the entire world.
3. Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
4. Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
5. Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
6. Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
7. Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
8. Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
9. Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
10. Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
11. Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
12. I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
13. I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
14. I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
15. I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
16. I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
17. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
18. I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
19. It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
20. Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
21. Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
22. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
23. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
24. Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
25. One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
26. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
27. Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
28. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
29. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
30. The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
31. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
32. The giving of love is an education in itself.
33. The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
34. Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
35. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
36. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
37. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
38. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
39. Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
40. You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
41. You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
42. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
43. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.