Ties Quotes - Page 29

Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

Happy girls are always the prettiest

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said "The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden." So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, "If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life."

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.

I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

God’s priority isn’t your destination but your development. God’s priority isn’t the dream but the dreamer.

The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.