Many Quotes

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.