Use Quotes - Page 248

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

To know and not to use is not yet to know!

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Nobody ever flunked a science museum

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

The use of riches is better than their possession.

The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.