Who Quotes

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.