Quotes 541 till 560 of 921.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Source: As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
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Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
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Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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