Famous Quotes By Thomas A. Edison

 

1. Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
2. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
3. Great ideas originate in the muscles.
4. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
5. I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
6. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
7. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
8. I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
9. I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
10. I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
11. It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
12. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
13. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
14. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
15. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
16. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
17. Religion is all bunk.
18. Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
19. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
20. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
21. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
22. The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
23. The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
24. There is no substitute for hard work.
25. To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
26. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
27. To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
28. Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Famous Quotes By T. S. Eliot

 

1. A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
2. A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
3. All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
4. Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
5. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.Business today consists in persuading crowds.
6. Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
7. For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
8. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
9. Home is where one starts from.
10. I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
11. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
12. I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
13. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
14. I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
15. It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
16. Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
17. Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
18. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
19. Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
20. Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
21. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
22. The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
23. The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
24. There is no method but to be very intelligent.
25. This love is silent.
26. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
27. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
28. Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
29. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
30. You are the music while the music lasts.

Famous Quotes By Ron Paul

 

1. 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
2. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
3. Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
4. As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
5. Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
6. Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
7. Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
8. I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
9. I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
10. I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.
11. In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
12. Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.
13. Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
14. Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
15. The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
16. There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
17. There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
18. There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
19. Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
20. Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
21. To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
22. War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
23. What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
24. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
25. When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Famous Quotes By Anais Nin

 

1. A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
2. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
3. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
4. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
5. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
6. Dreams are necessary to life.
7. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
8. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
9. Good things happen to those who hustle.
10. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
11. I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
12. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
13. I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
14. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
15. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
16. Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
17. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
18. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
19. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
20. Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
21. People living deeply have no fear of death.
22. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
23. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
24. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
25. There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
26. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
27. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
28. Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
29. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
30. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
31. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Famous Quotes By Charles Dickens

 

1. A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
2. A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
3. Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
4. Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
5. Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
6. Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
7. Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
8. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
9. Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
10. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
11. I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
12. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
13. If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
14. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
15. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
16. Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
17. Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
18. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
19. Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
20. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
21. That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
22. The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
23. The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
24. The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
25. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
26. The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
27. There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
28. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
29. There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
30. There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
31. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
32. Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Famous Quotes By Walt Disney

 

1. A man should never neglect his family for business.
2. All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
3. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
4. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
5. Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
6. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
7. Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
8. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
9. I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
10. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
11. I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
12. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
13. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
14. I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
15. I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
16. I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
17. If you can dream it, you can do it.
18. Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
19. Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
20. Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
21. Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
22. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
23. We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
24. We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
25. You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
26. You can't just let nature run wild.
27. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
28. You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Famous Quotes By Angelina Jolie

 

1. All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
2. And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
3. Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.
4. First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
5. I always play women I would date.
6. I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.
7. I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
8. I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
9. I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
10. I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
11. I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
12. I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
13. I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
14. I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
15. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
16. I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.
17. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
18. I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
19. I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
20. I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
21. Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!
22. Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
23. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
24. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
25. They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
26. To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
27. When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
28. Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Famous Quotes By Margaret Thatcher

 

1. A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
2. Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
3. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
4. Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
5. Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
6. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
7. I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
8. I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
9. I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
10. I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
11. I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
12. I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
13. I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
14. If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
15. If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
16. If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
17. I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
18. It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
19. It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
20. It's a funny old world.
21. It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
22. No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.
23. No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.
24. Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
25. One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
26. Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
27. Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
28. The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
29. The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
30. There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
31. There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
32. To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
33. What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
34. You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Famous Quotes By Noam Chomsky

 

1. As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
2. Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
3. Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
4. Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
5. Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
6. I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
7. I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
8. If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
9. If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
10. If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
11. In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
12. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
13. Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
14. Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
15. The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
16. The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
17. The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
18. The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
19. The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
20. The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
21. The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
22. The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
23. The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
24. The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
25. There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
26. Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
27. We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Famous Quotes By Ron Fournier

 

1. A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
2. Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.
3. AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.
4. At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
5. By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
6. Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
7. Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever.
8. For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
9. Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
10. Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
11. If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
12. If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
13. I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.
14. Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
15. Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
16. Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.
17. Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.
18. Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11,2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
19. The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
20. Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.
21. We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
22. White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.
23. With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
24. You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

Famous Quotes By Peter Drucker

 

1. A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
2. Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
3. Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
4. Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
5. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
6. Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
7. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
8. Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
9. Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
10. Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.
11. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
12. My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
13. Never mind your happiness do your duty.
14. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
15. People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
16. Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
17. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
18. So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
19. Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
20. Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
21. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
22. The computer is a moron.
23. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
24. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
25. The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
26. The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
27. The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
28. The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
29. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
30. Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
31. Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
32. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
33. When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Famous Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

 

1. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
2. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
3. All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
4. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
5. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
6. Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
7. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
8. Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
9. Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
10. If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
11. If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
12. If you want to be happy, be.
13. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
14. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
15. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
16. Music is the shorthand of emotion.
17. One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
18. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
19. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
20. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
21. The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
22. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
23. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
24. To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
25. True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
26. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
27. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
28. War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
29. Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Famous Quotes By Deepak Chopra

 

1. But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
2. Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
3. Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
4. Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
5. I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
6. I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
7. I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.
8. In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
9. In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
10. It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
11. I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
12. Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
13. Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
14. Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
15. Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.
16. The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
17. The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
18. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
19. The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
20. The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
21. To think is to practice brain chemistry.
22. Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
23. Victims always feel alone and helpless.
24. We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
25. We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
26. We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
27. You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
28. You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Famous Quotes By Leonardo da Vinci

 

1. A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
2. All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
3. Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
4. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
5. Art is never finished, only abandoned.
6. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
7. Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
8. Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
9. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
10. Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
11. I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
12. In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.
13. Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
14. Learning never exhausts the mind.
15. Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
16. Life well spent is long.
17. Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
18. Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
19. Nature never breaks her own laws.
20. Our life is made by the death of others.
21. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
22. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
23. The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
24. The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
25. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
26. Water is the driving force of all nature.
27. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
28. Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
29. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
30. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Famous Quotes By William Hague

 

1. As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
2. At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
3. I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
4. I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
5. I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
6. I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
7. I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
8. I trust the people.
9. I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
10. Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
11. It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
12. It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
13. Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
14. Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
15. People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
16. Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
17. Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
18. The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
19. The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
20. The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
21. The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.
22. The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
23. The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
24. There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
25. There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
26. To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
27. Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
28. Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
29. We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
30. We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
31. Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
32. You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.