Quotes 481 till 500 of 1714.
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Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
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His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
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How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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