How Quotes

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

How young can you die of old age?

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.