Those Quotes

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.