Famous Quotes By Brian Eno

 

1. Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
2. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
3. Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
4. Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
5. Everybody is entertained to death.
6. For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
7. I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
8. I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
9. I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
10. I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
11. I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
12. I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
13. I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
14. I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
15. I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
16. I take sounds and change them into words.
17. I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
18. I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
19. I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
20. I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
21. I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
22. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
23. If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
24. I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
25. I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
26. I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
27. In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
28. It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
29. It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
30. I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
31. I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
32. I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
33. Law is always better than war.
34. Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
35. Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
36. Most game music is based on loops effectively.
37. Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
38. Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
39. Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
40. Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
41. One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
42. One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
43. One often makes music to supplement one's world.
44. People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
45. Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
46. Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
47. Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
48. The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
49. The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
50. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
51. The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
52. The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
53. There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
54. We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
55. You can't really imagine music without technology.

Famous Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer

 

1. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
2. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
3. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
4. But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
5. Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
6. Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
7. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
8. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
9. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
10. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
11. If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
12. If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
13. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
14. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
15. It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
16. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
17. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
18. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
19. No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
20. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
21. Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
22. One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
23. Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
24. Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
25. Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
26. Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
27. The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
28. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
29. The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
30. The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
31. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
32. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
33. The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
34. There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
35. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
36. War is a contagion.
37. We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
38. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
39. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
40. Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
41. Yesterday, December seventh,1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Famous Quotes By Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

1. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
2. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
3. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
4. But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
5. Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
6. Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
7. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
8. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
9. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
10. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
11. If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
12. If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
13. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
14. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
15. It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
16. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
17. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
18. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
19. No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
20. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
21. Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
22. One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
23. Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
24. Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
25. Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
26. Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
27. The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
28. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
29. The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
30. The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
31. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
32. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
33. The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
34. There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
35. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
36. War is a contagion.
37. We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
38. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
39. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
40. Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
41. Yesterday, December seventh,1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Famous Quotes By Alexander Pope

 

1. A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
2. A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
3. A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
4. A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
5. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
6. All nature is but art unknown to thee.
7. An honest man's the noblest work of God.
8. And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
9. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
10. But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
11. Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
12. Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
13. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
14. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
15. For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
16. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
17. Health consists with temperance alone.
18. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
19. Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
20. I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
21. If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
22. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
23. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
24. Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
25. Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
26. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
27. Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
28. No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
29. One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
30. Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
31. Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
32. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
33. So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
34. Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
35. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
36. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
37. The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
38. The most positive men are the most credulous.
39. The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
40. They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
41. Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
42. 'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
43. To err is human to forgive, divine.
44. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
45. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
46. What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
47. Wit is the lowest form of humor.
48. Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Famous Quotes By Orison Swett Marden

 

1. A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
2. Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
3. All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
4. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
5. Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
6. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
7. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
8. If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
9. It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
10. Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
11. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
12. No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
13. No man fails who does his best.
14. No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
15. Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
16. Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
17. Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
18. Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
19. Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
20. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
21. Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
22. The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
23. The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
24. The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
25. The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
26. The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
27. The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
28. The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
29. The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
30. There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
31. There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
32. There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
33. There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
34. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
35. There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
36. To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
37. Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
38. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
39. What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
40. When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
41. Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
42. You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
43. Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Famous Quotes By Christopher Hitchens

 

1. A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
2. A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
3. A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
4. 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
5. For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
6. High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
7. I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
8. I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
9. I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
10. I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
11. I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
12. I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
13. I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
14. I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
15. If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
16. I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
17. I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
18. In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
19. It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
20. My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
21. My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
22. Of course, I do everything for money.
23. One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
24. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
25. Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
26. Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
27. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
28. Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
29. The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
30. The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
31. The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
32. The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
33. The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
34. The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
35. There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
36. To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
37. To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
38. Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
39. Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
40. Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
41. Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
42. When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.

Famous Quotes By Bill Gates

 

1. A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
2. Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
3. Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
4. Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
5. DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
6. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
7. I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
8. I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
9. I spend a lot of time reading.
10. I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
11. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
12. If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
13. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
14. If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
15. I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
16. I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
17. In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
18. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
19. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
20. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
21. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
22. It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
23. Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
24. Life is not fair get used to it.
25. Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
26. Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
27. People everywhere love Windows.
28. Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
29. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
30. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
31. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
32. The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
33. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
34. The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
35. This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
36. We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
37. We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
38. Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
39. Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
40. We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
41. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Famous Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

 

1. Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
2. All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
3. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
4. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
5. Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
6. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
7. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
8. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
9. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
10. I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
11. I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
12. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
13. If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
14. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
15. It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
16. It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
17. It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
18. It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
19. It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
20. Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
21. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
22. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
23. Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
24. Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
25. Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
26. Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
27. Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
28. Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
29. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
30. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
31. So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
32. Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
33. That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
34. The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
35. The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
36. The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
37. The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
38. The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
39. There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
40. There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
41. There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
42. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
43. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
44. We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
45. Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
46. When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
47. Wine is bottled poetry.
48. You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
49. You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Famous Quotes By David Herbert Lawrence

 

1. A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
2. All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
3. Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
4. Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
5. Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
6. Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
7. God is only a great imaginative experience.
8. I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
9. I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
10. I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
11. I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
12. I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
13. In every living thing there is the desire for love.
14. It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
15. Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
16. Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
17. Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
18. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
19. Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
20. Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
21. My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
22. Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
23. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
24. Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
25. Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
26. Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
27. People always make war when they say they love peace.
28. Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
29. Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
30. Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
31. So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
32. The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
33. The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
34. The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
35. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
36. The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
37. The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
38. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
39. The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
40. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
41. The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
42. The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
43. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
44. There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
45. They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
46. Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
47. You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Famous Quotes By William Hazlitt

 

1. A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
2. A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
3. A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
4. A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
5. A wise traveler never despises his own country.
6. An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
7. Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
8. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
9. Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
10. Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
11. Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
12. Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
13. Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
14. Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
15. I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
16. If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
17. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
18. It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
19. Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
20. Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
21. Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
22. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
23. No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
24. People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
25. Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
26. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
27. Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
28. Rules and models destroy genius and art.
29. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
30. The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
31. The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
32. The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
33. The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
34. The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
35. The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
36. The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
37. The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
38. The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
39. The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
40. There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
41. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
42. There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
43. There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
44. Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
45. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
46. To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
47. To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
48. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
49. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
50. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
51. You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
52. Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Famous Quotes By Nelson Mandela

 

1. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
2. A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
3. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
4. Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
5. Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
6. Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
7. Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
8. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
9. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
10. Forget the past.
11. Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
12. I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
13. I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
14. I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
15. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
16. I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
17. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
18. I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
19. I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
20. I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
21. If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
22. If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
23. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
24. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
25. Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
26. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
27. Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
28. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
29. Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
30. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
31. Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
32. Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
33. Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
34. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
35. Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
36. Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
37. There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
38. There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
39. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
40. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
41. There is no such thing as part freedom.
42. There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
43. We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
44. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Famous Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

 

1. A leader is a dealer in hope.
2. A picture is worth a thousand words.
3. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
4. All religions have been made by men.
5. Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
6. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
7. Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
8. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
9. Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
10. He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
11. History is a set of lies agreed upon.
12. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
13. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
14. I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
15. If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
16. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
17. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
18. Imagination rules the world.
19. In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
20. In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
21. It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
22. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
23. Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
24. Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
25. Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
26. Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
27. One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
28. One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
29. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
30. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
31. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
32. Respect the burden.
33. Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
34. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
35. The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
36. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
37. The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
38. The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
39. The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
40. The human race is governed by its imagination.
41. The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
42. The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
43. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
44. There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
45. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
46. To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
47. War is the business of barbarians.
48. What is history but a fable agreed upon?
49. When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
50. Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
51. You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
52. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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.