Famous Quotes By Cat Cora

 

1. A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.
2. Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
3. I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
4. I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
5. I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.
6. I think about food all the time. It's my passion it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.
7. I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.
8. I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.
9. If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.
10. It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.
11. My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
12. To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
13. When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
14. When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

Famous Quotes By Jim DeMint

 

1. As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
2. I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
3. I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
4. I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.
5. I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.
6. I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
7. If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
8. If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
9. If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
10. Marriage is a religious and state issue.
11. Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
12. One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
13. Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
14. The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
15. Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
16. We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.
17. We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
18. We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
19. Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.
20. You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Famous Quotes By James Russell Lowell

 

1. A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
2. As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
3. Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
4. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
5. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
6. Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
7. Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
8. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
9. Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
10. Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
11. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
12. Light is the symbol of truth.
13. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
14. On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
15. Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
16. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
17. Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
18. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
19. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
20. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
21. The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
22. The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
23. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
24. To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
25. Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
26. Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
27. Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Famous Quotes By Mindy Kaling

 

1. Almost every college playwright or sketch or improve comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
2. Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.
3. Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
4. Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
5. I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
6. I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
7. I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.
8. I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.
9. I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.
10. I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women.
11. My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'
12. My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
13. Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.
14. On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
15. People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.
16. People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
17. The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.
18. Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.
19. We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.
20. When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

Famous Quotes By Joan Jett

 

1. Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
2. Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
3. Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
4. Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
5. I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
6. I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
7. I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
8. I know music is subjective.
9. I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
10. I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
11. I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
12. I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
13. I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
14. I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
15. I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
16. I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
17. It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
18. I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.
19. People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
20. Pop music is not a threatening style of music.
21. Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
22. So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
23. The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
24. We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
25. Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
26. Women are still second-class citizens.
27. You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

Famous Quotes By Clint Eastwood

 

1. Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
2. Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
3. I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job.
4. I haven't been very active in politics.
5. I keep working because I learn something new all the time.
6. I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.
7. I still work out on a daily basis.
8. I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
9. I was drafted during the Korean War.
10. If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
11. If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
12. I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.
13. It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
14. Men must know their limitations.
15. My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
16. Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
17. Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
18. People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
19. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
20. Society is at odds with itself.
21. Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
22. The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
23. There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
24. There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
25. There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
26. They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
27. This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
28. Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
29. You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
30. You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Famous Quotes By Baltasar Gracian

 

1. A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
2. Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
3. Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
4. Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
5. Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
6. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
7. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
8. He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
9. He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
10. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
11. Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
12. Know or listen to those who know.
13. Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
14. Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
15. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
16. Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
17. Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
18. Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
19. Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
20. The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
21. The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
22. The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
23. To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
24. True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
25. True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
26. When desire dies, fear is born.
27. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
28. Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Famous Quotes By Glenn Beck

 

1. A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
2. Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
3. 'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.
4. I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
5. I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.
6. I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.
7. I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
8. I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
9. Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.
10. Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.
11. No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
12. Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
13. People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
14. Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
15. Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
16. Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
17. The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.
18. We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
19. We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
20. We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
21. What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.
22. When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
23. When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
24. Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
25. You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.
26. You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Famous Quotes By Milton Friedman

 

1. A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
2. Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
3. Governments never learn. Only people learn.
4. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
5. History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
6. I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
7. If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
8. Inflation is taxation without legislation.
9. Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
10. Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
11. Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
12. Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
13. The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
14. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
15. The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
16. The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
17. The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
18. The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
19. The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
20. The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
21. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
22. Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
23. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
24. Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Famous Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

1. A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
2. A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
3. Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
4. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
5. As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
6. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
7. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
8. Friendship is a sheltering tree.
9. He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
10. He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
11. How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
12. I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
13. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.
14. In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
15. Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
16. Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
17. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
18. Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
19. People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
20. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
21. Poetry: the best words in the best order.
22. Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
23. Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
24. Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
25. That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
26. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
27. The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
28. The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
29. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
30. The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.
31. To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
32. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Sowell

 

1. As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
2. Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
3. Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
4. If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
5. If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
6. In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
7. It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
8. It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
9. Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
10. Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
11. Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
12. One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
13. One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
14. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
15. People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
16. People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
17. Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
18. Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
19. The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
20. The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
21. The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
22. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
23. The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
24. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
25. The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
26. The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
27. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
28. Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
29. What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
30. Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Merton

 

1. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
2. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
3. Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
4. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
5. Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
6. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
7. If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
8. In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
9. Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
10. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
11. Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
12. October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
13. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
14. Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
15. Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
16. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
17. The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
18. The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
19. The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
20. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
21. We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
22. We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
23. When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Famous Quotes By Stanislav Grof

 

1. A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
2. A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
3. A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
4. According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
5. An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
6. At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
7. Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
8. Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
9. Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
10. For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
11. I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
12. I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
13. I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
14. I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
15. If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
16. In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
17. Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
18. The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
19. The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
20. The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
21. The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
22. The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
23. The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
24. The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
25. There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
26. There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
27. Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
28. Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
29. Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Famous Quotes By Shimon Peres

 

1. He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
2. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
3. I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
4. I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
5. I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
6. My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
7. Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
8. Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
9. The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
10. The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
11. The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
12. The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
13. The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
14. What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
15. When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
16. You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Famous Quotes By Euripides

 

1. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
2. Cleverness is not wisdom.
3. Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
4. Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
5. Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.
6. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
7. God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
8. Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
9. He is not a lover who does not love forever.
10. He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
11. It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
12. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
13. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
14. No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
15. Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
16. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
17. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
18. Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
19. Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
20. Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
21. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
22. The best of seers is he who guesses well.
23. The greatest pleasure of life is love.
24. There is just one life for each of us: our own.
25. Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
26. To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
27. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
28. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
29. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.