Who Quotes

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.