Which Quotes

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.