Quotes 141 till 160 of 5418.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
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He had about as much equipment for the stage as the average Zulu has for psychiatry
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54 -
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism - that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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