Use Quotes - Page 127

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.