And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge. Huh? Pudge, the Colonel said. Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
People start parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like they're leading.
Dana Gillman Rinehart
The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.
Earl Riney
Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people.
Robert J. Ringer
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.
If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident.
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
Molly Ringwald
Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!
Henry Rink
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
Riorio
I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
Martin Ritt
Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.
Cesar Ritz
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Antoine Rivarol
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything -- history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch.
J. A. Primo De Rivera
We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
Henry Ford
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
John Sculley
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
David Seabury
I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
W.E. (William Edwin) Sangster, W
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
W.E. (William Edwin) Sangster, T
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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