Who Quotes

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

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.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

I'm married. Who cares about me?

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.