Able Quotes - Page 83

Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

You've always got to have a plan B. You've got to be able to shift gears and find a new course of action.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.

I can see how everything relates to everything else when I think that nothing is merely coincidental. If everything that happens is inevitable, then the world is connected and whole.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.