Quotes and Sayings
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls - Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.Robert X Cringely
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.George Bernard Shaw
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.Sir Winston Churchill
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.Samuel Johnson
No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.Charles Caleb Colton
you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up.Jesse Jackson, B. F. A. 1982
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.John Wooden
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.Friedrich Nietzsche
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.William F. Buckley Jr.
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.Cato the Elde
I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin
Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.Stella Terrill Mann
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.James Thurbe
Never date a woman you can hear ticking.Mark Patinkin
I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.Madame de Stael
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted - Not my hand held by an old smoothie.William Safire
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.Confucius
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.Isaac Watts
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.Buddha
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.Unknown
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
All the sounds of the earth are like music.Oscar Hammerstein II
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - The power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.Anatole France
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.Robert Francis Kennedy
Optimization hinders evolution.Anon.
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.Commitment To Excellence
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.Benjamin Stolberg
