Use Quotes - Page 223

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it's going to a great cause. We'll see how many masks I'll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I'll hold onto them.

All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".

There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.