Those Quotes

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

God help those who do not help themselves.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.