Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
Nicholas Murray Butler
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
Ernest Hemingway
One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
Scott Walker
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
Samuel Butler
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
Martha Reeves
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Space and time are active participants in the dynamics of the cosmos.
Albert Einstein
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon
Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
Orson Scott Card
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.
Brian Clough
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers.
Stephen Richards
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
Aung San Suu Kyi
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
David Herbert Lawrence
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
John Green
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
Douglas Horton
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
Zach Braff
Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces! Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb? All things are alive in your sacred walls Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda
Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.
Steve Maraboli
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
Tony Kushner
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Copyrighted © 2021 — Quotation.io. All rights reserved.
