Quotes 2341 till 2360 of 3161.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p. -
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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