Many Quotes

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.