Their Quotes

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.