Use Quotes - Page 25

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction.

Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.