Sons Quotes

Robert j. oppenheimer, after viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, nm. invention and technology magazine, 2001 - now we are all sons of bitches....
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Willis Whitney
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blaise pascal - we are generally the better persuaded by the...
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
The talmud - humor the sons of the poor, for they give science...
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Sir Richard Steele
When I was young, I was sure of many things now there are only two things of which I am sure one is, that I am a miserable sinner and the other, that Christ is an all - Sufficient Saviour. He is well - Taught who learns these two lessons.
John Newton
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Jacques Maritain
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
Arthur Schopenhaue
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
Bertrand Russell
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Dame Edith Sitwell
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
J. Deville
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Anonymous
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.
George Washington
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Associate with well - Mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walke
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
H. L. Mencken
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fulle
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
Henry Mille
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
Michel de Montaigne
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Horace Mann
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurbe