The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Ben Stein
No one will do it for you.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question?
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Remarks are not literature.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Money is always there but the pockets change.
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.
Let me listen to myself and not to them.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones.
John Steinbeck
The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.
Stanton Peele
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.
Walter Cronkite
It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of those liberties which make the defense of the nation worthwhile.
Earl Warren
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it -- atheists or Christians?
Richard Wurmbrand
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor, We Are Still M
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers.Give and spend,and be sure that God will send;for only in giving and spendingdo you fulfill the object of His sending.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving, Interview in Writer
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, message
There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philad
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