But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
William Hazlitt
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Samuel Johnson
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
The late Bill Nye once said I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.
Vito Fossella
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Andrew Weil
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
William Shakespeare
I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
Ice Cube
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.
Lawrence Schiller
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
Ronnie James Dio
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.
Theodor Herzl
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
Sylvia Plath
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated.
Thomas Jefferson
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Douglas Wood
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
Copyrighted © 2019 — Quotation.io. All rights reserved.
